Applicable to the installation and/or maintenance and/or repair of electrical equipment (n.e.s.), namely, generators, motors, convertors, switch and control gear (including relays, contactors, electrical instruments and equipment associated therewith), refrigeration and cooling equipment, transformers and furnace equipment in the Provinces of the Transvaal and Natal.
RATE A (n.e.s.)
| 1. | Armature winding (n.e.s.) including the winding of all DC motors. |
| 3. | Electrical maintenance work and/or installation and/or repair work. |
| 5. | Rotor and/or armature balancing work where the mass of the article being balanced exceeds 250 kg. |
RATE AA
| 1. | All operations (n.e.s.) in the assembling of transformers, other than a yoke above 1 000 kVA, including wiring to predetermined points on or attached to the transformer (excluding fitting adjustments). |
| 2. | *All winding operations in repair work using preformed coils (excluding connecting up on line and/or testing) in the re-winding of stators and/or rotors of A C machines rated at up to and including 600 volts as scheduled below: |
Two-pole
|
100 kW
|
Four-pole
|
75 kW
|
Six-pole
|
50 kW
|
Eight-pole
|
30 kW
|
*Ratio: Employees may be employed on operation AA2 provided that a ratio of one Rate A employee engaged on armature winding is employed for each Rate AA employee employed. Where an employer utilises the services of employees in contravention of the ratio requirement herein contained, such employees shall be remunerated at not less than the minimum rate applicable to Rate A.
| 3. | High potential testing when performed by persons normally engaged in operative processes. |
| 4. | Winding disc and/or spiral and/or helical windings with two or more conductors in parallel, including loading and unloading by the same employee of self-locating mandrels and/or formers. |
RATE B
| 1. | Cold sawing where the sawyer marks direct from cutting list. |
| 2. | Commutator undercutting (n.e.s.). |
| 3. | Wire drawing, including supervisory work and setting up of wire drawing machines. |
| 4. | Rotor and/or armature balancing work where the mass of the article being balanced does not exceed 250 kg. |
RATE C
| 1. | All operations (n.e.s.) in the assembling of transformers, other than a yoke up to 1 000 kVA, including wiring to predetermined points on or attached to the transformer (excluding fitting adjustments). |
| 2. | Connecting and/or sweating of leads and/or ends of transformers above 500 kVA (n.e.s.) |
| 3. | Final machining of slip rings on completed rotors (by means of special purpose machine). |
| 4. | Setting of trips and/or stops on coil forming machines. |
| 5. | Winding disc and/or spiral windings with single conductor, including loading and unloading by the same employee of self-locating mandrels and/or formers. |
RATE D
| 1. | All operations (n.e.s.) in the dismantling and assembling (excluding sub-assembly, motor fielding and fitting) of motors and generators having a rotating core diameter exceeding 500 mm under the instruction of a Rate A employee. |
| 2. | *All winding operations in repair work using preformed coils (excluding connecting up on line and/or testing) in the re-winding of stators and rotors of A C machines rated at up to and including 600 volts as scheduled below: |
Two-pole
|
30 kW
|
Four-pole
|
22 kW
|
Six-pole
|
15 kW
|
Eight-pole
|
11 kW
|
3. Brazing of leads and/or located parts.
4. *Marking off material (n.e.s.).
*‘Marking off’ means marking off material to given lengths for cutting off purposes only, using only length gauges and/or rule and/or tape measure and marking material.
| 5. | Marking out insulation material for transformers from drawings and/or schedules under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 6. | Setting of stops on guillotine for cutting insulation only. |
| 7. | Setting of stops on manually operated guillotine. |
| 8. | Wrapping of high voltage paper bushings (foiled synthetic bonded) by machine. |
RATE DD
| 1. | Cleaning of commutator slots prior to testing. |
| 2. | Commutator undercutting where the armature is located in a jig and the cutting tool is pre-set to stops and is moved by hand. |
| 3. | *Winding and/or connecting of stators and/or armatures for AC machines with a rating not exceeding 2 kW. |
*Ratio: Employees may be employed on operations D2 and DD3 only provided that a ratio of not less than four Rate A and Rate AA employees and all apprentice armature winders taken together engaged on the operations to which the ratio applies are employed for each Rate D and/or Rate DD employee employed, and where at least one Rate A employee is engaged on armature winding: Provided that where employees are engaged on armature winding solely in respect of machines rated at not more than 2 kW, and that this is in a clearly demarcated area and such employees are supervised by at least one Rate A armature winder to every five Rate DD employees so engaged, the ratio need not be observed.
Where an employer utilises the services of employees in contravention of the ratio requirements herein contained, all employees engaged in the operations to which the ratio provisions apply shall be remunerated at not less than the minimum rates applicable to Rate A or Rate AA work, as the case may be.
RATE DDD
| 1. | Field coil winding, using insulated strip. |
| 2. | Taping and/or wrapping of stator and/or rotor and/or armature coils and/or field coils and/or transformer leads and/or coils and/or conductors and/or tubes by hand. |
RATE F
| 1. | All operations in the dismantling and/or assembling of motors and generators (excluding fitting adjustments) having a rotating core diameter not exceeding 500 mm under the instruction of a Rate A employee. |
| 2. | Filing by hand of coil bars for rotors to go and no-go gauges. |
| 3. | Inserting bars in squirrel-cage rotors. |
| 4. | Mounting of covers and/or fittings and/or terminals and/or pipe work, including straightening of studs where necessary and the use of jointing material. |
| 5. | Removing top yoke prior to assembling of coils, under instruction of a Rate A to D employee. |
| 6. | Stacking and/or banding and/or securing of laminations and the positioning of clamps, including the use of fixed gauges. |
| 7. | Stator and/or rotor and/or armature coil forming by hand, using formers, or by power-driven machine (excluding setting of trips). |
RATE G
| 1. | Attending cleaning and/or degreasing and/or acid and/or rinsing and/or fluxing baths and/or drying out and/or oil filling plant. |
| 2. | Checking core stacks, using pre-set gauges. |
| 3. | Cutting of non-metallic gaskets by hand. |
| 4. | Cutting up insulating material to stops and/or templets by guillotine. |
| 5. | Filing by hand of coil slots in rotors and/or stators and/or armatures to go and no-go gauges. |
| 6. | Forming insulations by machine. |
| 7. | Forming of mica insulation plates and/or mica sheets. |
| 8. | Making connector clips by hand in jigs. |
| 9. | Making up of connection strips. |
| 10. | Manual straightening of conductors. |
| 11. | Operating wire covering machine. |
| 12. | Packing and/or ironing of insulating material on to the armature to form a seat for the armature coils. |
| 13. | Pressing winding insulation into moulds, including preparatory wrapping. |
| 14. | Stripping of windings for repair of motors and generators. |
| 15. | Winding and/or pulling of stator and/or rotor loops by hand and/or by power-driven machines (excluding setting up). |
| 16. | Winding coils for motors, using wire on formers and/or spools by machine, including changing of self-locating mandrels and/or formers. |
RATE H
| 1. | Cleaning and/or tinning conductors. |
| 3. | Dismantling for repair of motors and generators of a rating not exceeding 2 kW. |
| 4. | Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or stoking and/or attending. |
| 5. | Minding wire drawing machine. |
| 6. | Packing in prepared crates of repaired articles for despatch and/or sale. |
| 7. | Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or nameplates. |
| 8. | Varnishing machine attendant. |
| 9. | Waxing coils to ease insertion into slots. |
