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

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Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule D

Division D/19

Wire and Rope Manufacturing Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/19 are Prescribed in Section 1(1) of Part II of this Manual

Section (c): Wire drawing plant

 

 

RATE AA

1. *Supervisory work, including setting up and the final checking of adjustments and changing attachments.

*‘Supervisory work’: Not less than one employee with supervisory knowledge to be appointed in each department on each shift.

 

RATE C

1. Assisting in the supervision of wire drawing, cleaning, heat treatment and wire testing.

 

RATE F

1. Supervising of employees employed on classes of work below Rate F, including repetition ‘in process’
2. Checking of wire (not final checking).

 

RATE G

1. Attending and/or minding heat treatment and/or cleaning and/or pickling and/or lime slaking and/or spent acid plant under the supervision of a Rate AA or C employee.
2. Operating a wire covering extrusion machine.
3. Operating rod and/or wire straightening and/or cutting machine.
4. Operating rod and/or wire testing machine.
5. Operating wire drawing bench, including butt welding of wire by machine and brazing of wire and removal and replacement of attachments, under the instructions of a Rate AA or C employee.