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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 D

Division D/22

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/22 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

Section (b): Hollowware manufacturing operations

 

 

1. Welding and/or silver soldering of stainless steel products (n.e.s.).....................................           Refer to table of wage rates

 

RATE DD

1. Free-hand gas welding of seams of milkcans (n.e.s.).
2. Welding and/or silver soldering of stainless steel products (attachment of spouts and/or handles and/or hoops and/or legs).

 

RATE F

1. Attaching handles and/or spouts and/or hoops and/or fittings by welding.
2. Drop testing of finished enamelled hollowware under supervision of a Rate AA to D employee.
3. Repetition fusion welding of containers not exceeding 1,6 mm in thickness, in fixtures, not involving the use of filler rods.
4. Welding in manufacture of spouts and/or handles.
5. Welding of hoop seams.
6. Welding of milk-can neck to body.

 

RATE G

1. Automatic welding, where the welding head is automatically fed and the speed of the weld mechanically controlled.
2. Operating guillotine to jigs and/or stops and/or marks and/or fixtures, excluding for pressed metal door frames, pressed metal window surrounds, transformer doors and pressed metal sub-economic housing doors and curtain walling manufactured mainly from pressed metal (excluding setting up).
3. Operating machine designed for or permanently adapted for one only operation where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work (non-machining operation).
4. Repetition bending and/or forming by machine to jigs and/or dies and/or stops (excluding press-brake).
5. Repetition operation of or attending machines designed or permanently adapted for a single tool operation where it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, starting, operating and/or attending, stopping and unloading the machine.
6. Repetition operation of or attending semi-automatic machines where the work cycle is power-driven and the end point is controlled by automatically operating stops (excluding setting up).

For the purposes of the above, ‘semi-automatic machine’ is a machine on which it is not necessary to centralise or true the work by hand and where the manual operations are limited to loading the work piece into the chuck or holding device of the machine, setting the machine in motion, advancing or retracting the tools before and after the power cycle takes over and stopping and unloading the machine.

7. Reshaping and/or straightening articles and/or components damaged or distorted in production.
8. Visual inspection.

 

RATE H

1. Application of anti-corrosive and/or protective coatings.
2. Degreasing and/or polishing by hand rubbing.
3. Dipping in enamel and/or paint and/or lacquer.
4. Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or by portable power tools.
5. Fitting handles to hollowware, excluding welding.
6. Holding up for riveting.
7. Loading and/or unloading of plating and/or anodising racks under the instruction of a Rate A to D employee.
8. Operating hand portable or pedestal grinding machines where the operator is not required to grind to marks, templets, gauges or sizes.
9. Operating wire-fed stitching machine.
10. Pressing and/or bending and/or forming and/or rolling in the manufacture of handles and/or spouts and/or fittings.
11. Repetition spot and/or projection welding of fittings to main components by machine.
12. Stoning and/or filling of hollowware in enamelling process under the instruction of a Rate A to D employee.
13. Wiring and/or unwiring of articles for immersion in plating baths under the instruction of a Rate A to D employee.