(1) The terms of this Agreement shall be observed—
| (a) | in the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industry throughout the Republic of South Africa; |
| (b) | in the Provinces of the Transvaal and Natal by the section of the Industry concerned with the installation, repair and servicing of radios, refrigerators and domestic electrical appliances; |
| (c) | in the Magisterial Districts of Durban, East London, Johannesburg, Pietersburg, Pinetown and The Cape by the section of the industry concerned with radio manufacture; |
| (d) | by all employers who are members of the employers’ organisations and by all employees who are members of the trade unions. |
| (2) | Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses 1(1)(d) and 2, the terms of this Agreement shall not apply to employers and employees who are not members of the employers organizations and trade unions, respectively. |
| (3) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (1), the terms of this Agreement shall not apply to the following: |
| (a) | the installation, repair and servicing of radios and domestic electrical appliances in the Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State. |
| (b) | the manufacture, for sale, of standard high-speed cutting tools made from high-speed steel by means of plant and/or equipment and/or methods specifically adapted and/or designed for production by repetitive processes, in the Magisterial Districts of Boksburg, Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg and Vereeniging. |
| (c) | the manufacture of aluminium sheet and/or foil, and interrelated operations. |
| (d) | the installation and/or repair and/or maintenance of electrical lifts and escalators. |
| (e) | the production of iron and/or steel and/or ferro-alloys. |
| (f) | the installation, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment referred to in paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition ‘Electrical Engineering Industry’ in clause 3 of Part I of the former Agreement in the Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State. |
| (g) | the manufacture of tungsten carbide (hard metal). |
| (h) | the assembling, servicing, installation, maintenance and/or repair of appliances, equipment, machines, devices and apparatus, whether utilising manual, photographic, mechanical, electrical, electrostatic or electronic principles, or any combination of such principles, that are primarily intended for use in accounting and/or business and/or calculation and/or office and/or educational procedures. |
| (i) | the Venetian Blind and Allied Products Manufacturing Industry in the Province of the Transvaal. |
| (j) | the installation and/or repair of burglar and/or other similar alarm systems in the Provinces of the Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State. |
| (k) | the manufacture of plumbers’ and/or engineers’ brassware by means of gravity die-casting and/or pressure die-casting and/or hot pressing and/or machining. |
| (l) | the undertaking of Union Steel Corporation of South Africa (Pty) Limited, in the Magisterial District of Vereeniging, Transvaal. |
| (m) | the Locksmithing Trade in the Magisterial Districts of Benoni, Boksburg, Durban, Germiston, Johannesburg, Krugersdorp, Lower Umfolozi, Pinetown, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Randburg, Roodepoort, Springs and The Cape. |
| (n) | the production, for sale, of welding electrodes by means of plant and/or equipment and/or methods specifically adapted and/or designed for production by repetitive processes, in the Magisterial Districts of Brits, Germiston, Kempton Park and Pretoria. |
| (o) | the undertaking of Billiton Aluminium S.A. (Pty) Ltd in the Magisterial District of Lower Umfolozi. |
| (p) | the erecting, on site, of products referred to in the preamble to Division D/7 of Part II of the Agreement published under Government Notice R.404 of 31 March 1998 (but shall exclude the manufacture on site of palisade fencing). |
| (q) | the servicing and/or maintenance and/or repairing of lawn-mowing machines, cultivators, sickle-cutters, grass-cutters, edge-trimmers, chainsaws and/or parts and/or components thereof. |
| (4) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (1), the terms of this Agreement shall apply to |
| (a) | apprentices only to the extent to which they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Manpower Training Act, 1981, and learners in terms of chapter IV of the Skills Development Act 97/1998, or any contract entered into or any conditions fixed thereunder; and |
| (b) | trainees under training in terms of section 30 of the Manpower Training Act, 1981, only in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act or any conditions fixed thereunder. |
| (5) | Notwithstanding the limitation of the Agreement to the operations therein scheduled— |
| (a) | the provisions of the clauses relating to Leave Pay, Additional Leave Pay and Leave Enhancement Pay of Part I of the Agreement published under Government Notice No. R.404 of 31 March 1998 shall apply to all employees employed in operative processes receiving a rate of pay equivalent to or more than that prescribed from time to time in the Agreement for Rate D employees, whether paid weekly or monthly, but excluding payment for overtime; |
| (b) | no person directly employed in a manufacturing or production process shall be paid a wage less than Rate H as prescribed from time to time in Part II of this Agreement. |
For the purposes of this subclause, ‘employed in a manufacturing or production process’ shall apply to those employees whose rate of pay is not scheduled in this Agreement but whose activities are directly concerned with the creation of the engineering goods and/or services as covered by the scope of application of this Agreement. This provision shall not apply to the work carried out by administrative staff and/or those employees employed in non-production operations.
| (6) | The conditions of employment of watchmen shall be regulated by the provisions of this Agreement, except in respect of ordinary working hours, which shall be a maximum of 44 hours per week. |
[Substituted by Government Notice R.268 dated 12 April 2013]
