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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

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
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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.