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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/13

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/13 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

 

RATE A

1.        Assembling and/or wiring of signs (n.e.s.).

 

RATE AA

1.        Bending glass tubes.

2.        Layout work.

Learnership in respect of the above AA operations:

First eight months of experience....................................

Rate D

Second eight months of experience...............................

Rate C

Third eight months of experience..................................

Rate B

Thereafter.....................................................................

Rate AA

 

RATE C

1. Operating power-driven press-brake, including setting (n.e.s.).
2. Roller bending and/or forming, other than repetition roller bending and/or forming.
3. Setting of dies and/or fixtures and/or jigs and/or stops and/or trips on production machines, excluding rotary and/or reciprocating machines, but including drilling machines.
4. Setting and gas setting of electric lamp making machines, including running adjustments during the manufacturing process.
5. Setting of trips and/or stops on coil forming machines for ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformers.

 

RATE D

1. Assembling (n.e.s.).
2. Bending of metal tubes and/or sections in manually operated machine to sketch.
3. Marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
4. Welding in fixtures and/or of parts so formed and/or located as to obviate the need for a fixture.

 

RATE DD

1. Bending of glass tubes to jigs and/or moulds.
2. Sign face masking.
3. Tracing in the layout department.

 

RATE DDD

1.        Routine electrical testing up to 380 volts and 50 amps.

 

RATE G

1. All operations in the making of cable forms for light fittings and/or signs from prepared running out lists and/or templets.
2. Assembling and/or soldering of premanufactured components into lighting units and/or signs (n.e.s.).
3. Assembling and/or soldering of premanufactured components requiring no fitting or adjustment but including deburring (n.e.s.).
4. Assembly of caps to globes/tubes and feeding onto automatic capping machine.
5. Attending automatic assembly machines.
6. Bending and/or forming by machine to dies and/or jigs and/or length gauges and/or marks and/or stops, excluding press-brake.
7. Broaching, by press, using fixed broaches, of ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformer cores.
8. Circular cutting and/or flanging and/or slitting by machine.
9. Component assembly of electric filament and discharge lamps by hand.
10. Connecting preformed and/or sealed and/or prepared wires to predetermined points and/or connections (n.e.s.).
11. Cutting and/or cropping and/or shearing to marks and/or stops and/or jigs and/or length gauges.
12. Cutting glass tubes to length.
13. Cutting up insulating material to stops.
14. Evacuating and/or filling glass tubes.
15. Feeding and/or attending automatic sealing and/or capping machine.
16. Finding and preparing of ballast coil ends.
17. Fly and/or treadle and/or manual pressing and/or notching and/or power pressing where the work is operated upon with pre-set dies and/or to stops (excluding setting up).
18. Fusing by hand of electrodes to glass tubes (n.e.s.).
19. Inspection and testing of electric lamps (n.e.s.).
20. Repetition clamping and/or fusing and/or welding of cathodes to electrodes by automatic machine.
21. Repetition fluorescent and/or illumination testing.
22. Repetition ohm testing to pre-set setting on ohmmeters.
23. Repetition operation of a drilling machine.
24. Repetition operation of power-driven press-brake to jigs and/or stops for purpose of fluorescent lighting fittings and/or fluorescent signs produced on a quantity basis where the thickness of the material does not exceed 1,6 mm.
25. Repetition production winding of ballasts and/or chokes and/or sodium transformer coils with wire on formers and/or spools by machine to a predetermined numbers of turns.
26. Repetition punching to gauges and/or jigs and/or stops and/or templets and/or dies and/or marks.
27. Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine.
28. Repetition tracing to jigs and/or layouts and/or templets, excluding layout department.
29. Routine setting of air gaps in ballasts to predetermined limits by means of comparators and/or deviation meters and/or oscilloscopes where the adjustments of instruments are made by a Rate A employee.
30. Sealing by hand of ballast containers after filling with compound.
31. Stencilling by hand.
32. Soft soldering and/or sweating by hand.
33. Visual inspection of electric lamps including resoldering of cap connections and removal of flash.
34. Wiring of signs and/or fittings to instructions and where the course of wires is marked by cleats and/or lines and/or saddles and/or fixtures and/or where no wiring diagram is used during manufacture.

 

RATE H

1. Assembling connector blocks.
2. Cutting wiring connection to set lengths and fitting eyelets.
3. Dipping and/or impregnating in insulating medium and/or enamel and/or paint and/or varnish.
4. Dismantling of old signs (in shop).
5. Fixing ballasts to wiring channels.
6. Mixing and milling of phosphor for coating glass tubes under instruction of a Rate A to D employee.
7. Mixing and milling paste for caps.
8. Packing of manufactured articles for despatch or sale.
9. Preparing and/or stapling boxes for packing of manufactured articles.
10. Preparing and/or spraying of sign boxes for reception of sign faces.
11. Washing and/or rinsing and/or drying and/or coating and/or baking of glass tubes by automatic or semi-automatic processes.