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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 D

Division D/12

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/12 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

RATE AA

1. Inspecting and/or supervising (n.e.s.).
2. Setting out and/or marking off (n.e.s.).

 

RATE B

1.        Assembling universal windows and assembling doors.

2.        Final straightening and/or adjusting by use of hammer and/or dolly and/or wrench bar.

3.        Repairing and/or altering and/or adjusting and/or erecting on site or built in (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1. Arc welding (n.e.s.).
2. Operating router.

 

RATE D

1. Assembling (n.e.s.).
2. Assembling finished component parts into complete flyscreens, including inserting gauze by hand.
3. Coupling completed windows and/or bays (n.e.s.), including setting out and/or marking off when necessary.
4. Drilling and/or countersinking (n.e.s.).
5. Erection of burglar proofing in the field or on site.
6. Fitting of glazing beads and all operations incidental thereto, including marking for mitreing and pop marking prior to drilling.
7. Marking off material to given lengths for cutting-off purposes, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
8. Operating automatic and/or semi-automatic welding machine (n.e.s.).
9. Operating cold and/or power saw including marking off with tape and/or rule only and including setting of stops.
10. Operating power driven press-brake (excluding setting).
11. Press operating (n.e.s.), including the affixing and/or removal of dies where there is positive location (excluding setting).
12. Recessing for cup pivots by hand.
13. Removing and/or inserting of glazing bars in completed windows, including riveting by hand.
14. Setting and/or adjusting of margins of vents and/or sashes of cottage windows and/or cliscoe surrounds prior to arc welding.
15. Squaring frames and/or vents and/or sashes before positioning.

 

RATE E

1. Inserting pre-cut glazing beads, including pop marking and drilling.
2. Metal spraying for decorative and/or protective purposes under effective supervision.
3. Recessing for cup pivots by machine.

 

RATE F

1. Operating automatic and/or semi-automatic welding machines (n.e.s.); welding of standard metal window and/or sash sections only.

 

RATE G

1. Affixing burglar bars by hand, including pop marking using component as a  and/or positioning and/or drilling under effective supervision, excluding arc welding.
2. Affixing and/or positioning of ventilators into industrial windows and/or windows into surrounds and/or screwing and/or riveting, including clamping and/or positioning under effective supervision, excluding arc welding.
3. Coupling of standard windows previously prepared.
4. Cutting gauze by hand to and/or frames.
5. Inserting gauze by press.
6. Inserting glass into frame bar by machine.
7. Joining corners of aluminium windows and/or doors where no adjustment is required.
8. Manually operating machines, other than power-driven, designed for or permanently adapted for one only operation where the operator is not called upon to centralise or true the work by hand.
9. Operating power-driven press-brake to jigs and/or length gauges and/or stops and/or templets for the sole purpose of gang-punching and when the stroke of the press is uncontrolled (excluding setting up).
10. Operating tenon riveting machine.
11. Positioning and puttying of kicking plates to cottage windows.
12. Recessing for cup pivots by automatic machine where manual operations are limited to loading, setting the machine in motion, stopping and unloading the machine (excluding setting up).
13. Repetition drilling and/or countersinking to jigs and/or fixtures and/or stops on pedestal drill only.
14. Repetition hand drilling under effective supervision.
15. Roll forming of metal sections.
16. Screwing on and/or riveting and/or clipping of assembled louvre stiles into metal frames.
17. Springing in only, under effective supervision, of glazing bars and/or meeting rails, excluding fitting and/or adjusting and excluding universal windows.

 

RATE H

1. Attaching fittings to windows already prepared and/or removing and/or replacing fittings on sites or built in, under effective supervision, but excluding remote control gearing.
2. Cutting gauze to jigs and/or stops by machine.
3. Hot dip coating and/or galvanising under effective supervision.
4. Repetition cutting through of faulty mitre joints after welding.
5. Bending of wires and/or forming same to jigs and/or stops and/or fixtures in fly screen manufacture.
6. Inserting weather strips.
7. Labelling.
8. Lifting and placing of stops into position where positive location is provided (excluding setting).
9. Pinning up and/or crimping of hinge pins to cottage and industrial windows under effective supervision, excluding lining up of hinge leaves.
10. Puttying and/or wood and/or other filling of frames and/or surrounds previously prepared.
11. Removing rust and/or scale by wire wheels and/or abrasives and/or sand and/or shot blasting.
12. Screwing on of burglar bars and/or weather bars.
13. Sorting of scrap material.
14. Stretching and/or rough straightening of bars by hand and/or by machine.

15.        Threading and/or closing of fenestra joints, excluding universal windows.

 

Learnership periods and rates of pay therefor

 

RATE B

 

Newcomers:

First two months

Refer to table of wage rates

Second two months

Rate D

Third two months

Rate C

Thereafter

Rate B

 

Employees promoted from Rate C:

First two months

Rate C

Thereafter

Rate B

 

Employees promoted from Rate D:

First two months

Rate D

Second two months

Rate C

Thereafter

Rate B

 

RATE C

 

Newcomers:

First two months

Refer to table of wage rates

Second two months

Rate D

Thereafter..

Rate C

 

Employees promoted from Rate D:

First two months

Rate D

Thereafter

Rate C

 

RATE D

 

Newcomers:

First two months

Refer to table of wage rates

Thereafter

Rate D

 

Provided that—

(a) learnership periods and rates of pay as set out above shall apply on condition that where an employee has had not less than two years’ continuous service with the same employer, he shall not be required to serve any learnership period of more than three months;
(b) any employee employed at and qualified for a stated rate shall suffer no reduction in the rate he is receiving on promotion as a learner when the rate indicated in the foregoing table for the new occupation is lower than the rate he is receiving at the time.