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

Notices

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 M

Wage Rates Applicable to Operations Scheduled in Schedule M are prescribed in Clause 3(a) of Part II of this Agreement

VI. Miscellaneous operations

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RATE A

1.*Marking out.

*‘Marking out’ means the marking out with measuring instruments of the centres and working lines of articles and/or material.

2.*Setting out.

*‘Setting out’ means the setting out of work on the floor or on the bench to sketches and/or drawings and/or dimensions.

 

RATE B

1.Riveting and/or caulking pressure vessels.
2.Supervisory work (n.e.s.).

 

RATE C

1.Heat treatment (supervisory work).
2.Galvanising (supervisory work).

 

RATE D

1.Riveting and/or caulking (n.e.s.).

 

RATE E

1.Assembling, from component parts, of single-stage, centrifugal or helical rotor pumps up to 250 mm discharge diameter, requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.
2.Assembling, from component parts, of multi-stage pumps with no hydraulic discs, requiring no fitting or adjustment, but including deburring.

 

RATE F

1.Supervising employees employed on classes of work scheduled below Rate F, when so appointed.

 

RATE G

1.Dressing and/or deburring by hand and/or by grinding and/or portable power tools.
2.Hot dip coating and/or galvanising under supervision of a Rate A to D employee.
3.Metal coating by dipping.
4.Operating tube and/or rod and/or wire straightening machine.
5.Repetition hydraulic testing and/or testing by air, excluding setting up of testing equipment.
6.Repetition marking to jigs and/or length gauges.
7.Riveting (10 mm diameter or less).
8.Rough straightening and/or rough flattening of material, excluding the use of rules and straight edges and excluding structural metal work.
9.Rough grinding in jigs and/or to by hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine.
10.Sand and/or shot and/or hydro and/or grit blasting.
11.Striking by hand hammer under instruction of a Rate A to D employee.

 

RATE H

1.Affixing slings under supervision (employees exclusively so employed).
2.Application of anti-corrosive and/or anti-fouling and/or protective coatings.
3.Attending paring and/or shaving and/or planing machine for steel wool manufacture.
4.Baling and/or cutting of scrap other than in workshop.
5.Boiler stoking and/or attending.
6.Dipping in enamel and/or lacquer and/or paint.
7.Holding up for riveting.
8.Loading of rolled sheet coils onto uncoiler and setting of uncoiler release, under supervision.
9.Metal buffing and/or polishing.
10.Metal cleaning by acid and/or by degreasing and/or by pickling and/or by rinsing and/or by fluxing.
11.Operating tumbling barrel.
12.Operating hand portable and/or pedestal grinding machine where the operator is not required to grind to marks and/or gauges and/or sizes and/or.
13.Rethreading and/or retapping and/or reclaiming of nuts and/or bolts.
14.Rivet heating.
15.Spraying of enamel and/or paint.
16.Straightening and/or flattening of gussets and/or cleats.
17.Stamping and/or affixing metal labels and/or nameplates.
18.Stretching and/or rough straightening by hand and/or by machine of bars.
19.Furnace loading and/or unloading and/or stoking and/or quenching.
20.General labouring.
21.Oiling and/or greasing.