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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Extension of the Consolidated Main Collective Agreement to Non-parties (for the period 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2024)

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule E/3

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

Section (b): Installation Section

Subsection (b)(ii): Piping

 

Piping used not to exceed 200 mm diameter and 7 mm wall thickness.

 

RATE AA

1. Setting out of stock on floor or on bench to sketch and/or drawings and/or dimensions.
2. Assembling and installation of pre-manufactured components from stock, including adjustment.
3. Bending of tubes and/or pipes (n.e.s.).
4. Arc and/or gas welding of air-conditioning pipes, including light frames and brackets only.
5. Drilling machine work (n.e.s.).

 

RATE D

1. Screwing and/or cutting of pipes, including resetting and/or size changing of dies.
2. Bending, swaging, flaring of tubes and/or sections in manually operated machine.
3. Dismantling of structure and/or pipe installations, including use of gas and/or electric torch.
4. Arc and/or gas cutting (n.e.s.).
5. Operating power saw (n.e.s.), including marking off with rule and/or tape only and including setting of stops.
6. Preliminary tack welding of jobs prior to riveting or bolting up (runs of not more than 25 mm in length).
7. Assembling by means of jigs and/or templets (n.e.s.).
8. Operating single and/or double-headed oxyacetylene profiling machine and/or single and/or multi-head straight line cutting machine, including setting up.
9. Punching and/or shearing and/or cropping to jigs and/or stops, including marking off with rule and/or tape.
10. Welding and/or brazing, including hard and/or silver soldering of parts locating in jigs and/or parts so located as to obviate the need for a jig (n.e.s.).
11. Soldering (n.e.s.).
12. Soft soldering and/or sweating by hand.
13. Hand welding with mechanically fed electrodes (excluding pressure vessels) (including flanges as in piping).
14. Operating automatic arc and/or gas welding machine (excluding setting up).
15. Manufacture of brackets where used in piping and/or duct erection using angle iron up to  75 x 75 x 6 mm.
16. Manufacture of flanges where used in piping and/or equipment.

 

RATE G

1. Repetition beveling of pipe ends.
2. Repetition random drilling by hand.
3. Repetition screwing and/or cutting of pipes and/or tubes with die heads and/or taps and/or cutters by machine, including mounting of pre-set screwing and/or cutter heads.
4. Repetition swaging and flaring of pipes.
5. Operating pipe cutting machine (excluding setting up).
6. Repetition threading and/or tapping by machine (n.e.s.).
7. Operating power saw for repetitive cutting off to stop and/or length gauges, excluding setting of stops.
8. Screwing machine operating, excluding setting up.
9. Repetition installation of straight pipework.
10. Application of preformed insulation material to pipework.

 

RATE H

1. Gasket cutting, using templets.
2. Sand and/or shot blasting.