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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 G

Section (g): Metal service centres

 

‘Metal Service Centre’ means an establishment undertaking activities confined to the supply of metal products to customer requirements, including profile cutting, but does not include establishments exclusively engaged in the sale of or cutting to length of metal products on a non-repetitive basis to customer requirements and further does not include the following:

(a) manufacture; and/or
(b) construction; and/or
(c) assembly; and/or
(d) erection of any article consisting mainly of metal when undertaken at such Metal Service Centre.

 

For the purposes of this section –

“metal products” mean billets, plates, sheets, strips, bars, rods, angles, flats, sections extrusions, pipes, tubes, wire and wire rod;

“manufacturing” means the production of articles or parts or components thereof by means of tools and/or equipment and/or methods specifically adapted and/or designed for production by repetitive processes (including the rectification of faults in the course of such processes), in separate manufacturing establishments or departments or annexures, separated from General Engineering and activities by effective closures.

 

RATE A (N.E.S)

Note: No person other than a journeyman or an apprentice may be employed on work classified at Rate A in Schedule G without prior permission of the Council.

 

RATE C

1. Supervisory work, including setting up and/or changing attachments on machines.
2. Laser cutting.
3. Setting (n.e.s.) (excluding machine tool setting up and/or tool setting) of dies and/or fixtures and/or stops and/or jigs and/or guides and/or trips on production machines.
4. Quality control inspection.

 

RATE D

1. Operating multihead oxyacetylene cutting machines, including setting up.
2. Guillotining to cutting lists, including the setting of the guillotine only.
3. Press brake bending and/or forming to customer requirements, including setting up of press brake only.
4. Plasma and profile cutting (argon gas) and slitting of rolled coils by machine, including changing of spacers and blades.
5. Eccentric press operating, including setting of eccentric press only.
6. Radial arm drilling machine operating.

 

RATE DD

1. Operating single-head oxyacetylene cutting machines, including setting up.
2. Band and/or power hacksawing (n.e.s.)

 

RATE DDD

1. Repetition marking of material for cutting purposes to templates and/or length gauges and/or tape only.
2. Pedestal drilling on radial arm machine.
3. Roll straightening and/or flattening of steel / metal strips by machine, including setting.
4. Belt sanding of steel sheets, including changing of belts.
5. Quality control checking.

 

RATE F

1. Moving and/or stacking and/or wrapping and/or strapping and/or loading and/or unloading and/or raising and/or        lowering materials by machine other than general labouring.
2. Guillotining to stops.
3. Repetition picking, checking and quality control.

 

RATE G

1. Mass measuring and/or dispatch of materials.
2. Operating power / bandsaw to stops.
3. Eccentric press operating where the machine is pre-set.
4. Polishing and/or scotch briting steel pipes by machine.
5. Assisting the operator to load blades and/or spaces on a slitter machine.
6. Operating basic aluminium coiling machine.

 

RATE H

1. General labouring.
2. Loading and/or unloading of coils.

 

Except for the provisions of subsections (iv) and (viii) dealing with vehicle driving and watchman’s work no other provisions of Schedule G shall apply.