Sectoral Determinations > Sectoral Determination 4: Clothing and Knitting Sector, South Africa

(1)	Minimum wages: The minimum wages which an employer shall pay to employees shall be as specified herein: Provided that—

(i)	if a new employer, as defined in clause 2(3), has been engaged in the sector for a period of not more than 12 months such wages may be reduced by not more than 10 per cent during such period, whereafter the minimum wages specified herein shall become payable.

(ii)

an employer who, at the coming into effect of this determination, employs not more than 30 employees in the aggregate in or in connection with his business and whose annual turnover does not exceed R450 000.00 shall pay his employees, in the first 12 months after the coming into effect of this determination, 70% of the wages specified herein and thereafter pay the minimum wages as specified. For the purpose of this subclause "annual turnover" means, at any date, the turnover for the preceding 12 months.

Wages for Employees in the Clothing Division

Category A

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	207.81	222.31	241.65	0-6 months	144.99	159.48	178.82
7-12 months	275.15	294.35	319.95	7-12 months	191.97	211.16	236.76

"Category A" means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the clothing division:

Capacities: Assistant Storeperson / Automatic Hydraulic Hat Presser / Belt Person/ Boiler Attendant / Cardboard Box Maker / Cleaner / Coat Turner / Cutter Of Traveller’s Swatches / Despatch Packer / General Worker / Hat Sprayers / Ironer / Layer by Hand / Layer by Machine / Marker / Operator / Packer / Patent Turner / Pinner / Plain Sewer / Sorter / Stamper / Winder.

Duties: covering buckles by hand or machine and/or trimming and cleaning belts after lining and belts have been machined together / eyelet punching and letting / guiding material with paper through automatic pleating machine / putting fasteners on caps / putting material between two paper looms (formers) and preparing for steam box in hand or loom pleating process / putting prepared formers in steam box and taking them out again in hand or loom pleating / riveting buckles, bending belt buckles / punching holes for buckles and prongs / pressing prongs into buckles / stapling buckles onto belt / rubberising, i.e. waterproofing processes on the work of smearing rubber solution upon seams or edges and rolling them over with a small wooden hand roller / cleaning off any rubber solution, painting seams or oilskins and waterproof hats / spreading of PVC (plastic solution) in waterproofing process and/or on raincoats and protective wear / raking material out of looms in hand or loom pleating process

Wages for Employees in the Clothing Division

Category B

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	210.52	225.21	244.80	0-6 months	146.88	161.56	181.15
7-12 months	230.65	246.74	268.20	7-12 months	160.92	177.01	198.46
13-18 months	250.00	267.44	290.70	13-18 months	174.42	191.86	215.11
19-24 months	275.15	294.35	319.95	19-24 months	191.97	211.16	236.76

"Category B" means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the clothing division:

Baster / Clicker / Conveyor Feeder / Cutter / Examiner / Finisher by Hand / Fitter-Up / Folder / Lay Copier / Machinist / Maker of Bows for Dresses / Operator of Automatic Lace, Embroidery or Monogramming Machine / Presser / Seam Welder / Setter of Automatic Pleating Machines / Shaper / Sloper / Any Other Employee Not Elsewhere Specified / Factory Clerk.

Wages for Employees in the Knitting Division

Category C

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	236.45	252.95	274.95	0-6 months	164.97	181.46	203.46
7-12 months	268.57	287.31	312.30	7-12 months	187.38	206.11	231.10
13-18 months	300,69	321.67	349.65	13-18 months	209.79	230.76	258.74
19-24 months	332.43	355.62	386.55	19-24 months	231.93	255.12	286.04
25+ months	364.55	389.98	423.90	25+ months	254.34	279.77	313.68

"Category C" means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the knitting division:

Capacities: Colouring Mass-Measurer / Cutter / Dyer’s Assistant / Handyperson / Knitting Machine Operator / Linker / Loader of magazine or comb Mender / Overlocker / Plain Sewer / Sewing Machinist including button, buttonhole and hemming machinist / Shaper of fully fashioned garments / Warper / Wrap Knitter.

Wages for Employees in the Knitting Division

Category D

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	236.45	252.95	274.95	0-6 months	161.97	181.46	203.46
7-12 months	260.06	278.20	302.40	7-12 months	181.44	199.58	223.77
13-18 months	284.05	303.87	339.30	13-18 months	198.18	217.99	244.42
19-24 months	307.66	329.13	357.75	19-24 months	214.65	236.11	264.73
25+ months	357.20	382.12	415.35	25+ months	249.21	274.13	307.35

"Category D" means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the knitting division:

Capacities: Backwinder / Boiler Attendant / Cleaner / Despatch Packer / Draw Threader / Examiner / Floorwalker / General Worker / Grader / Mender of socks / Operator / Parcel Maker / Pre-Cutter / Presser / Pre-or post boarder or former / Sampler / Seamer / Sorter / Turner / Winder / Yarn changer (pig tailor).

Duties: Employees engaged in transferring, labelling, trimming off surplus threads / folding / carding and/or packing.

Wages for Employees in the Knitting Division

Category E

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	252.71	270.34	293.85	0-6 months	176.31	193.94	217.44
7-12 months	297.00	310.50	337.50	7-12 months	202.50	222.75	249.75
13-18 months	340.56	356.04	387.00	13-18 months	232.20	255.42	286.38
19-24 months	384.51	401.99	436.95	19-24 months	262.17	288.38	323.34
25+ months	431.24	450.84	490.05	25+ months	294.03	323.43	362.63

"Category E" means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the clothing and knitting division:

Assist Foreperson / Dyer / Mechanic / Patternmaker / Supervisor.

Wages for Employers in the Clothing and Knitting Division

Bank Knife Cutter

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	224.07	239.70	260.55	0-6 months	156.33	171.96	192.80
7-12 months	248.06	265.37	288.45	7-12 months	173.07	190.37	213.45
13-18 months	270.90	289.80	315.00	13-18 months	189.00	207.90	233.10
19-24 months	296.44	317.12	344.70	19-24 months	206.82	227.50	255.07
25+ months	333.14	358.52	389.70	25+ months	233.82	257.20	288.37

"Band Knife Cutter" means an employee who cuts out all articles of wearing apparel, linings, trimmings or interlinings with a bandknife.

Wages for Employers in the Clothing and Knitting Division

Clerical

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
0-6 months	231.81	247.98	269.55	0-6 months	161.73	177.90	199.46
7-12 months	261.99	280.27	304.65	7-12 months	182.79	201.06	225.44
13-18 months	286.38	306.36	333.00	13-18 months	199.80	219.78	246.42
19-24 months	341.33	365.14	396.90	19-24 months	238.14	261.95	293.70

"Clerical Employee" means an employee who is engaged in the following capacities and duties in the clothing and knitting division:

Capacities: Cashier / Despatch Clerk / Storeperson / Shipping Clerk / Invoice Clerk / Work Study Clerk / Telephone Switchboard Operator.

Duties: writing, typing and filing / operating a calculating machine / computer Terminal / punch card machine or accounting machine / any other clerical work but does not include any other class of employee elsewhere defined, notwithstanding the fact that clerical work may form part of such employee’s work.

Wages for Employers in the Clothing and Knitting Division

In the Magisterial District of Hammarsdale, Camperdown, Umzinto, Paarl, Stellenbosch and Uitenhage				In all other Areas
	First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter		First 12 months	Second 12 months	Third 12 months & thereafter
	Per week	Per week	Per week		Per week	Per week	Per week
Assistant head cutter	406.73	435.11	472.95	Assistant head cutter	283.77	312.14	349.98
Head cutter	508.51	543.99	591.30	Head cutter	354.78	390.25	437.56
Fore- person	390.09	417.31	453.60	Fore- person	272.16	299.37	335.66
Watch- person	284.44	304.29	330.75	Watch- person	198.45	218.29	244.75
Driver 1 454kg	267.41	286.07	310.95	Driver 1 454kg	186.57	205.22	230.10
Driver 2 454-2722kg	292.57	312.98	340.20	Driver 2 454-2722kg	204.12	224.53	251.74
Driver 3 2722-4540kg	340.94	364.73	396.45	Driver 3 2722-4540kg	237.86	261.65	293.37
Driver 4 4540kg	412.15	440.91	479.25	Driver 4 4540kg	287.55	316.30	354.64

(2)

Basis of contract.- For the purposes of this clause the contract of employment of an employee, shall be on a weekly basis, and except as provided for in clause 6(4), he or she shall be paid in respect of a week not less than the full weekly wage prescribed in subclause (1), as read with the definition of "wage" in clause 1 and with subclause (3), for an employee of his or her category in the area in which he or she works, whether he or she has in that week worked the maximum number of ordinary hours of work applicable to him or her or less.

(3)	Differential wage.- An employer who requires or permits a member of one category of employees to perform work for longer than one hour on any day, either in addition to his or her own work or in substitution therefore, work of another category for which—

(a)	a wage higher than that of his or her own category is set out in subclause (1), shall pay to such employee in respect of that day, not less than the daily wage calculated at the higher rate; or

(b)

a rising scale of wages terminating in a wage higher than that of his or her own category is set out in subclause (1), shall pay to such employee in respect of that day not less than the daily wage calculated on the notch in the rising scale immediately above the wage which the employee was receiving for his or her ordinary work:

Provided that—

(i)	this subclause shall not apply where the difference between categories in terms of subclause (1) is based on experience;

(ii)	unless expressly otherwise provided in a written contract between an employer and an employee, nothing in this determination shall be so construed as to preclude an employer from requiring an employee to perform work of another category for which the same or a lower wage is prescribed.

(4)	Calculation of wages.- The hourly, daily or monthly wage of an employee shall be calculated as indicated in the definitions of these expressions in clause 1.

Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (Act No. 75 of 1997)

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Sectoral Determination 4 : Clothing and Knitting Sector, South Africa

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