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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule M

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Schedules in Schedule M are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

III. Cutting and punching operations

 

RATE B

1. Cold sawing where the sawyer marks direct from cutting list.

 

RATE C

1. Operating multi-head oxyacetylene cutting machine and/or profiling and/or flame planing and/or flame bevel cutting machine (including setting up) (n.e.s.).

 

RATE D

1. Arc and/or gas cutting (n.e.s.).
2. Operating single-head gas profile cutting machine and/or single and/or multi-head straight line cutting machine, including setting up.
3. Operating power saw (n.e.s.), including marking off with rule and/or tape only and including the setting of stops.
4. Operating nibbling machine (n.e.s.).
5. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing and/or punching to jigs and/or stops and/or templets (n.e.s.) (guillotines and/or cropping machines).

 

RATE G

1. Operating power saw for repetitive cutting off to stops and/or length gauges (excluding setting of stops) (other than in tool room).
2. Repetition cutting and/or cropping of bars and/or billets to stops and/or length gauges and/or repetition cutting and/or cropping of scrap.
3. Repetition cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to templets and/or marks and/or stops and/or length gauges, of plate not exceeding 5 mm thick and/or clauses not exceeding 7 mm thick.
4. Repetition operating nibbling machine and/or nibbling shears to jigs and/or templets and/or marks (excluding marking out) of material not exceeding 4 mm.
5. Repetition machine punching to gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or dies and/or marks of plates not exceeding 5 mm thick and/or clauses not exceeding 7 mm thick.
6. Repetition blanking and/or piercing by press, using guides and/or jigs and/or stops and/or dies (excluding pressbrake).