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- Part 1 – Summary of the Main Agreement conditions of employment
- 1. Scope of application of the agreement
- 2. Period of operation of the agreement
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Hours of work
- 5. Overtime and payment for work on Sundays
- Rate of pay for overtime
- Rate of pay for urgent work
- Rate of pay for starting work before the usual starting time of the shift
- Rate of pay for starting work on a Saturday before the usual starting time of the shift
- Rate of pay for working on a Sunday
- Rate of pay for urgent maintenance work on a Sunday
- Rate of pay for shift work beginning on a Sunday night
- Deductions from overtime for absence during an ordinary shift
- 6. Shift work
- Rate of pay for night shift work
- Number of consecutive nights that must be worked to constitute night shift work
- Time to elapse between working on night shift and day shift
- Rate of pay for working a two-shift or three-shift system
- Rate of pay for time worked after the completion of the usual shift
- Deductions from overtime for absence during ordinary hours of a shift
- Night work
- 7. Short-time
- 8. Payment of earnings
- 9. Maternity leave
- 10. Incentive bonus work
- Minimum working conditions for incentive bonus work
- Rest periods
- Rates for incentive bonus work
- Disputes over incentive bonus work
- Arrangement while waiting for a decision from the bargaining council
- Date on which the bargaining council’s decision becomes applicable
- Payment at annual shutdown to employees who do not qualify for the full period of paid leave
- Payment for normal delays
- Minimum rate for incentive bonus work
- Guarantee to employee on hourly rate of pay
- Payday for incentive bonus work
- Conditions under which an employee is entitled to three consecutive weeks’ paid leave
- Prohibition from working incentive bonus work
- Apprentices and incentive bonus work
- Re-negotiation of incentive bonus rates
- 11. Payment for public holidays
- 12. Leave pay
- Calculating leave pay
- Calculating leave pay for employees engaged on incentive bonus work
- Conditions under which an employee is entitled to three consecutive weeks’ paid leave
- Leave pay on termination of employment
- Payment of leave pay in the case of death or incapacity of an employee
- Date of commencement of employee’s employment for purposes of calculating leave pay
- Calculation of leave pay
- 13. Additional leave pay
- 14. Leave enhanced pay (formly known as leave bonus)
- 15. Special provisions relating to employees transferred to unscheduled occupations
- 16. Annual shutdown
- Application for intended annual shutdown
- Duration of annual shutdown
- Payment at annual shutdown to employees who do not qualify for the full period of paid leave
- Essential work during annual shutdown
- Advance notification of next annual shutdown
- Notice to discontinue annual shutdown
- Termination of employment before annual shutdown
- 17. Allowances
- 18. Termination of Employment
- 19. Employment of juveniles and issue of certificates
- 20. Outwork
- 21. Employment of persons under 15 years of age
- 22. Insurance of tools
- 23. Exemptions
- 24. Exhibition of agreement
- 25. Manufacturing certificates
- 26. Administration of agreement
- 27. Working partners
- 28. Agents
- 29. Injury on duty allowance
- 30. Unauthorised employment
- 31. Prohibition of cession and/or set-off
- 32. Certificate of service
- 33. Technological changes and work re-organisation
- 34. Paid sick leave
- 35. Security of employment and severance pay
- 36. Procedure for the negotiation of agreements and settlement of disputes
- 37. Levels of bargaining in the industry
- 38. Working-in time arrangements
- 39. Stand-by and call-out
- 40. Productivity bargaining
- 41. Extension of the agreement to the former independent states and self-governing areas
- 42. Family Responsibility Leave
- 43. Code of Good Practice on key aspects of HIV/Aids and employment
- 44. Attendance of worker representatives at national and regional council committees
- 45. Special provisions limited to construction sites
- 46. Time off for the training of shop stewards and for trade union office bearers to attend meetings
- 47. Time off for trustees of industry benefit funds and Merseta representatives
- 48. Employee training
- 49. Industry Policy Forum
- 50. Employee Share Ownership Programmes (Esops)
- Part 2 – Wages and/or earnings
- Increases on actual rates of pay
- Wage Increase Exemptions
- Guaranteed personal minimum increases
- Table 3: General wage increases
- Table 4: Electric cable (schedule F)
- Table 5: Structural engineering
- Table 6: Apprentices
- Table 7: Five-grade schedule
- Table 8: Vehicle drivers
- Table 9: Gate and fence manufacturing (division D/7)
- Table 10: Annexure H: Construction sites covered by a Project Labour Agreement
- Annexures
- Annexure A – Security of employment and severance pay
- 1.1 Introduction – Retrenchments and/or redundancies
- 1.2 Procedure A
- 1.3 Procedure B
- 2.1 Notice of proposed retrenchment
- 2.2 Consultation process
- 2.3 Severance pay
- 2.4 Notification of termination of employment
- 2.5 Notification to the bargaining council
- 2.6 Re-employment of retrenched employees
- 3.1 Notice of proposed retrenchment
- 3.2 Appointment of a CCMA facilitator
- 3.3 Procedure when a CCMA facilitator is not appointed
- 3.4 Selection criteria
- 3.5 Severance pay
- 3.6 Notification to the bargaining council
- 3.7 Re-employment of retrenched employees
- Notification – Lay-offs
- Definition – Lay-offs
- Consultation – Lay-offs
- Notification to employee – Lay-offs
- General – Lay-offs
- Turnaround work – Limited Duration Contracts of Employment
- Ship repair work – Limited Duration Contracts of Employment
- Short-term fluctuations in workload – Limited Duration Contracts of Employment
- Sitework – Limited Duration Contracts of Employment
- General – Limited Duration Contracts of Employment
- Limited Duration Contract of Employment
- Model Contract for use by Temporary Employment Services
- Annexure B – Five-Grade Job and Wage Structure
- Annexure C – The skill definitions accompanying the new five-grade structure
- Annexure D – Productivity Agreement: Objective
- Annexure E – Esops and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) issues
- Annexure F – Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/Aids and Employment
- Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/Aids and Employment: Introduction
- Code of Good Practice on Key Aspects of HIV/Aids and Employment: Objectives
- 3. Policy principles
- 4. Application and scope
- 5. Legal framework
- 6. Promoting a non-discriminatory work environment
- 7. HIV testing, confidentiality and disclosure
- 8. Promoting a safe workplace
- 9. Compensation for occupationally-acquired HIV
- 10. Employee benefits
- 11. Dismissal
- 12. Grievance procedures
- 13. Management of HIV/Aids in the workplace
- 14. Assessing the impact of HIV/Aids on the workplace
- 15. Measures to deal with HIV/Aids within the workplace
- 16. Information and education
- Annexure G – Attendance of worker representatives on national and regional committees of the bargaining council
- Annexure H: Construction sites covered by a Project Labour Agreement
- Annexure I – Industry Policy Forum
- Annexure J – Ship building and/or ship repair work
- Annexure K – Future of Industry Collective Bargaining
- Annexure A – Security of employment and severance pay
- A-Z Index
- Agreements – Provident
- Pro forma letters
- Letter 1: Pro Forma Letter of Employment
- Letter 2: Limited Duration Contract of Employment for substitute temporary employees
- Letter 3: Notification of short-time working
- Letter 4: Notification of lay-off to a trade union
- Letter 5: Written notice to a trade union of a perceived need to implement a retrenchment
- Letter 6: Notice of voluntary retrenchment
- Limited Duration Contract of Employment
- Wage Increase Exemptions
- LEP Exemptions
- Technical schedules
- Proforma Letters 16
- Main Agreement Handbook