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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

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/5

Press Knife and Cutter and Footwear Tack and Nail Manufacturing Division

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Division D/5 are Prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this agreement

 

RATE A

1. Forging and/or welding (n.e.s.).

 

RATE B

1. Supervisory work (n.e.s.).
2. Supervisory work, including setting up, in the manufacture of footwear tacks and nails:

First year's learnership

Rate D

Second year's learnership

Rate C

Thereafter

Rate B

 

RATE C

1. Supervisory work (Heat treatment)

First six months

Rate D

 

RATE D

1. Making and/or marking metal patterns and/or templets.
2. Milling and/or routing of steel to profile, by machine.
3. Final edging and/or sharpening to templets.
4. Final checking of knives to pattern.

 

RATE E

1. Brazing and/or silver soldering of knife steel at joints.
2. Sawing of knife steel.
3. Welding of knife steel and bracing steel (n.e.s.).
4. Pedestal and/or hand drilling to patterns for perforating tubes and/or prickers.
5. Jigging of plywood or other substance to pattern, and insertion of knife steel, punches and prickers into the jigged material.

 

RATE F

1. Random drilling of knife steel.
2. Surface grinding by machine to obtain a flat surface.
3. Making and/or marking metal patterns under supervision of a Rate D employee.

 

RATE G

1. Butt and/or spot and/or stitch welding by machine.
2. Bending knife steel to patterns and/or templets.
3. Grinding, sanding and/or filing of knife steel prior to final edging.
4. Marking and/or cutting of knife and/or bracing steel.
5. Operating tack and/or nail making machines.
6. Oxidizing of finished articles.
7. Punching of identifying symbols onto knives and/or cutters.
8. Insertion of prickers and/or perforating tubes by press.

 

RATE H

1. Application of protective paint coating.
2. Buffing and/or polishing.
3. Cleaning and/or pickling.
4. Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or stoking and/or quenching.
5. General labouring.