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AGENDA m M NO. ...ee...******* II Rosebery House 9 Haymarket Terrace Edinburgh EH12 5XZ Telephone 0131 474 9200

OX No. ED407 Edinburgh

Scottish Joint Negotiating Committee for Local Authorities Services ~ ~ ~ 0 1 3 1 4 7 4 9 2 9 2

CRAFT OPERATIVES

Your Ref:

Our Ref:

Date: 5 March 2001

Dear Chief Executive

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STORAGE OF TOOLS AND CLOTHING P L U ~ T E S

1. It has been agreed that with effect from the pay week including 1 January 2001 hourly plus rates for the prescribed list of skills set out in Appendices ' B and 'C' of the Scheme of Pay and Conditions of Service for Building and Civil Engineering Operatives, should be increased.

2. Agreement has also been reached on revisions to the Tool and Overall Allowances contained in Appendix D of the Scheme of Pay and Conditions of Service which are effective from the pay week including 1 January 2001.

3. Details are set out in the attached list.

4. Revised pages for the handbook will be issued in due course.

Yours sincerely

Oonagh Aitken (Employers' Side) Alan Ritchie (Trade Union Side)

Joint Secretaries

To: Chief Executives

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APPENDIX “6”

SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS

1. Rates of Dav for skill - Buildincl and Civil Enaineerinq

The following rates of pay for skill shall apply, where appropriate, in addition to the rate for Craftsman‘s Labourer set out in Appendix “A(1):-

Existing Plus Rate Revised Rate an hour (pence) w.e.f. 1.1.2001

Clay Puddler

Concrete Concrete Leveller or Vibrator Operator 26 28 Screeder and Concrete Surface Finisher

Clay Puddler chopping or treading puddles 33 35

- operative working off forms or other datum (eg road-form, or concrete haunch, or edge beam or wire) - operative required by the authority to use trowel or hand or powered float to produce high quality finished concrete to craft standard

Linesman-Erector 1st Grade (Skilled in all works associated with the erection of O.H. Transmission Lines including Assembly and Erection of Steel Towers; Concrete and Wood Poles of all types; insulators and O.H. Line Switchgear, Stringing, tensioning, sagging, jointing, clamping and making off all types of O.H. conductors; making off stay wires; also similar structures and other works appertaining thereto).

33

89

102

35

94

108

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2nd Grade (As above but lesser degree of skill - or competent and fully skilled either in assembly and erection of all types of supports - or assembly and erection of the insulators, conductors, stay wires - all as specified above)

Linesman-Erector's Mate (Semi-skilled in works specified above and a general helper)

Mobile Platform Erector

Skilled Mechanic Maintenance Mechanic on site, capable of carrying out field service, maintenance, and minor repairs, ancillary to civil engineering works

Plant Mechanic in shop, depot or on site, capable of carrying out major repairs and overhauls including welding work ancillary to civil engineering works

Plant Mechanic in shop or depot capable of operating turning lathe or similar machine andlor carrying out similar highly skilled work ancillary to civil engineering works

Mechanical plant

Power driven tools

Operative using power-driven tools such as breakers, percussive drills, picks and spades, rammers and tamping machines Operative using heavy breakers or percussive drills exceeding 60 cubic feet per minute, or in the case of machines which are not pneumatic, exceeding 50 Ibs (22.7kgms) weight


62 66

26

89

89

111

124

26

45

28

94

94

118

132

28

48

169

3


Compressors and Generators

Operator of air compressors or generators over 10 kw.

Cranes Driver of power-driven hoist or crane:

- up to and including 2 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

- over 2 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

Hoists Operator of Simon hoist

Mobile Cranes Driver of self-propelled mobile crane on road wheels or caterpillar tracks including lorry mounted:

- capacity up to and including 2 tons (or metric tonnes)

28 30

33

45

45

54

- capacity over 2 tons (or metric tonnes) and 76 up to and including 10 tons (or metric tonnes)

- capacity over 10 tons (or metric tonnes) and 102 up to and including 35 tons (or metric tonnes)

Banksman appointed to attend Crane, to be 45 responsible for fastening or slinging toads and generally to direct Crane Driver

Dumpers Driver of dumper up to and including 2 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

33

Driver of dumper over 2 tons and up to and 54 including 7 tons (or over 2 metric tonnes and up to and including 7 metric tonnes) capacity

35

48

48

57

81

108

48

35

57

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Excavators Driver of excavator with rated bucket capacity 45 48 up to and including 318 cu yd (or 0.3 cu metres)

Driver of excavator with rated bucket capacity 76 81 over 318 cu yd and up to and including 314 cu yd (or over 0.3 cu metres and up to and including 0.6 cu metres)

Driver of excavator with rated bucket capacity over 3.4 cu yd and up to and including 2 cu yd (or over 0.6 cu metres and up to and including 1.6 cu metres)

Operative attending excavator and responsible for positioning vehicles during loading or tipping

Fork-lift vehicles Driver of smooth-terrain fork-lift truck or side loader, up to and including 3 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

Driver of smooth-terrain fork-lift truck or side- loader over 3 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

Driver of rough-terrain fork-lift truck, up to and including 3 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

Driver of rough-terrain fork-lift truck, over 3 tons (or metric tonnes) capacity

Driver of "Giraffe" site placing vehicle

Mixers Operative employed on, and actually responsible for, operating mortar pan or concrete mixer up to but not including 10/7 (or 200 litres) wet capacity (to apply to one operative only per machine)

96

26

33

102

28

35

45 48

45 48

64 68

45 48

26 28

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Operative employed on, and actually responsible for, operating mixer concrete 10/7 and up to but not including 21/14 (or 200 litres and up to but not including 400 litres) wet capacity (to apply to one operative only per machine)

45 48

Operator of drag shovel 33 35

Motor Vehicles (Road licensed vehicles within the Construction and Use Regulations)

Driver of vehicle up to and including 3.5 tons (or metric tonnes) Gross Vehicle Weight

33

45

35

48 Driver of vehicle over 3.5 tons (or metric tonnes) and up to and including 7.5 tons (or metric tonnes) GVW

Driver of vehicle over 7.5 tons (or metric tonnes) and up to and including 10 tons (or metric tonnes) GVW

54 57

Driver of vehicle over 10 tons (or metric tonnes) and up to and including 16 tons (or metric tonnes) G W

74 78

81 86 Driver of vehicle over 16 tons (or metric tonnes) and up to and including 24 tons (or metric tonnes) GVW

Driver of vehicle over 24 tons (or metric tonnes) VGW

89

31

94

33 'Driver required by the authority to possess a current heavy goods vehicle driver's licence to be paid in addition to above rates.

Operator of Atlas loaders, demountable vehicles and tail lift vehicles to be paid in addition to the above rates.

25 26

Pumps Attendant of power-driven pump 26 28

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Road rollers Driver of power roller up to but not including 4 tons (or metric tonnes)

Driver of power roller 4 tons (or metric tonnes) and upwards

Scaffolders Trainee Basic

Tractors Driver of tractor, rubber-tyred agricultural type, when used to tow trailer, andlor with mounted compressor

Driver of tractor, wheeled or tracked (with or without equipment such as buckets, blades, loaders, backhoes)

up to and including 70hp

over 70hp and up to and including 1 OOhp

over 100hp and up to and including 170hp

Trenching machines (Multi-bucket) Driver of trenching machine up to and including 30hp (or metric horsepower)

Driver of trenching machine over 30hp up to and including 70hp (or metric horsepower)

Winches Driver of power driven winch

Pavlors, Masons, etc Pavior's Rammerman

Kerb and Paving Jointer


33 35

54

21 44

33

62

76

89

45

76

50

45

45

57

22 47

35

86

81

94

48

81

53

48

48

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Operative engaged in face-pitching or dry-walling

Piling General Piling Operative

General Skilled Piling Operative

Piling GangerKhargehand

Pile Frame Winch Driver

Pipe Jointers Jointer, Stoneware or Concrete pipes Jointer working on flexible joints or setting up or caulking lead joints under 12 in. (or 300mm) diameter

Existing Plus Rate Revised Rate an hour (pence) w.e.f. 1.1 200’

60 64

26

50

62

62

28

53

66

6

33 35

Jointer working on flexible joints or setting up or 45 caulking lead joints of 12 in. (or 300mm) diameter and over

Jointer, Cast Iron or Steel Pipes using lead 45

Pipelayers

under 12 in. (or 300mm) diameter Operative preparing the bed and laying pipes 33

Operative preparing the bed and laying pipes of 45 12 in. (or 300mm) diameter, and over

Tar Spraying, Manual or Mechanical Chargehand

Spraybar Operator

Gritter Operator

Timbermen Timberman

50

33

26

74

40

48

35

48

53

35

28

78

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Existing Plus Rate Revised Rate an hour (pence) w.e.f. 1 .1.2001

Except in cases where the timbering required 111 118 calls for special degree of skill, as, for example, jn running sand andlor cofferdams, or where walling struts andlor rakers are of 10 in. by 5 in. (or 250mm by 125mm) nominal or large timbers, in which case the rate shall be - Operative attending

Tunnels Operative working below ground on the construction or reconstruction of tunnels or f .ing shafts for tunnels

Operator of face tunnelling machine:

Tunnel miner (the skilled operative working at the face, or machineman working a drifter type of machine)

Tunnel miner's mate (the operative who assists the miner at the face or break-up, including . such operatives who work pneumatic tools or breakers, and/or in a soft tunnel, prepare the timber)

.

(The above tunnel rates are exclusive of plus rate payments prescribed for work in active foul or surface water sewers but inclusive of any other plus rate payment for conditions which Phht otherwise apply.)

Other operative engaged in driving headings over 2 metres in length from the entrance, in connection with drain, cable and main laying Road Surfacing Work required application of Rolled Asphalt, Tar and/or Bitumen Macadam Operatives employed on this class of work to be paid as follows - Raker

Tamperman

26

107

85

54

54

64

45

28

114

90

57

57

68

48

175

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Chipper 45 48

Operative attached to laying gangs (and mixing plant on hot rolled asphalt work)

15 16

Mixing Platform Chargehand 54 57 -

Driver of power roller 4 tons (or metric tonnes) and upwards

62 66

Operator of Mechanical Spreader of the Barber- Greene or similar type

64

Leveller on Mechanical Spreader of the Barber- Greene or similar type

64

68

68

NOTES

(i) The working hours set out in this Scheme shall apply to this class of work, subject to the proviso that due to the exceptional circumstances of the work and the desirability of keeping work going continuously, i t is necessary to limit intervals for meals to a period of a half-hour each.

(ii) In the event of a breakdown of plant (including haulage plant) or of conditions arising which make it necessary or desirable in the interest of the job to cease work on the job for any period exceeding one hour, the following arrangements shall apply - (a) If the operatives who have to cease work are given alternative work, hours

worked either on that work, or on rolled asphalt road surfacing work after the end of the normal working day shall be paid for at the overtime rates prescribed by Clause 16(e) of the Scheme.

(b) If the operatives who have to cease work are not given alternative work but are notwithstanding paid for the period of such stoppage, work may be continued beyond what would otherwise be the normal working day for a period equal to the total of the periods of such stoppages, but not exceeding three hours at ordinary hourly rates, and after a period of three hours, at the overtime rate prescribed by Clause 16(e) of the Scheme, as if the day had ended at the time at which ordinary hourly rates in accordance with this provision cease to be payable.

Note (ii) does not apply to Tar Macadam Surfacing Work.

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APPENDIX "C"

SCHEDULE OF ADDITIONAL RATES FOR CERTAIN CONDITIONS

The following rates shall apply, when appropriate, in addition to the rates set out in Appendix " A ( 1 ). The additional rate shall not be taken into account for the purpose of calculating overtime payments:-


Asbestos or Plastic Sheeting

Joiner required to cut asbestos or plastic sheeting using own toots

Boots Operative required by employer to work in kneeboots or thighboots

Cement: Operatives handling Operative working for not less than one hour tontinuously in the loading, unloading, stacking or stowing of dry cement (either loose, in stacks or in drums or in the placing of dry cement in a 'hopper or other receptacle allied to a concrete mixer of sire 1017 (0.30010.200 cu metres or 300/200 litres) and upwards whilst so employed. Goggles and protective clothing to be provided by the authority whenever possible

Operative working for not less than one hour continuously, handling cement or filler, in c mection with rolled asphalt road surfacing k- ,k whilst so employed

Cartridge operated guns Operative when using cartridge operated guns

Concrete Work Joiner required to re-use materials for concrete work using own tools

10 11

8 9

10 11

10

8

10

11

9

11

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Furnace, Firebrick Work and Acid-resisting Brickwork Furnace or similar hot work up to 120" Fahr. (49" Centigrade)

Above this temperature, or where special circumstances exist an appropriate rate shall be obtained from the Joint Secretaries

For brickwork involving the use of acid-resisting bonding materials

Redressing or Cutting for Indents in Stairs

Masons or bricklayers engaged in redressing or cutting for indents in stairs

Re-slating Slaters engaged on an area of slate roof or side of a slate roof exceeding 20 sq yds (16.7 sq metres) to be wholly stripped and re-slated with old materials

Sand-Facing Roofing Tiles Slaters engaged in the fixing and repair of concrete and sand-faced roofing tiles

Sewer work Operative working within a totally enclosed active foul sewer of any nature or condition (to include "Boot Money" if boots are worn)

Operative working within a totally enclosed active surface water sewer of any nature or condition (to include "Boot Money" if boots are worn)

Operative working outside existing sewers excavating or removing foul materials emanating from existing sewers (to include "Boot Money" if boots are worn)


7 7

10

7

11

10

28

14

16

1'

7

12

11

30

15

17

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Spray Painting Painter operating spray painting equipment

2 Wet Roughcasting Operative engaged on applying the wet dashing coat where the area of the job exceeds 50 -square yards (41.8 square metres) per operative dashing. (This allowance to be payable only to those operatives applying the dashing coat and for the time of that operation only.)

Work at heights

spaces where the height from ground level or from the base of the open space is -

jrk on external scaffolding or work over open

Over 12m and up to 27m



a Over 60m and up to 75m


Working in swings, cradles or boats or in boat- swain's chair

Existing Plus Rate Revised Rate an hour (pence) w.e.f. 1 .1.2001

11 12

11 12

6

8

21

30

37

25

6

9

22

32

39

27

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Conditions where there is dirt, inconvenience or discomfort.

Employees engaged on exceptional kinds of work lasting more than one hour, in conditions where there is dirt, inconvenience or discomfort of an extent and to a degree more than is inherent or usual in the building trade occupation concerned shall be paid not less than lop an hour whilst so engaged.

To qualify for the extra payment the working conditions must involve:-

work in water; andlor

close contact with dirt or filth; and/or

prolonged exposure to dust or spray or particles of a kind likely to cause irritation; and/or

prolonged exposure to the special conditions met in confined underground spaces (such as tunnels or deep basements) namely poor ventilation or light, dampness, dust, or the noise resulting from the use in such spaces of mechanical plant or tools; andlor

dirty work, such as where operatives are required to work with material coated with a substance, still being wet, which causes staining or soiling, such as certain types of mould, oil creosote, etc.

NOTE: * The authority to provide, where necessary and practicable, protective clothing and goggles. The term "protective clothing" includes watertight boots.

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APPENDIX "D"

SCHEDULE OF TOOL AND OVERALL ALLOWANCES Tools

The following tool allowances are payable to building craftsmen:-

PreEent rate w.e.f. 1.7.99

weekly

Carpenter and Joiner 211p

Banker Mason 165p

Mason Fixer 108p

Plasterer 108p

Bricklayer 108p

Slater 108p

Roof Felter 108p

Gratebuilder and Tilefixer 108p

Revised rate w.e.f. 1 .1.2001

weeklv

224

175 t.

115

115 c 115

115 t 115

115 C The following tool allowances are payable to apprentices who are put to the expense of maintaining tools:-

Present rate Revised rate w.e.f. 1.7.99 w.e.f. 1.1.2001

weekly weekly

Carpenter and Joiner 21 l p 224 C Mason (Banker Mason and Mason Fixer) 108p 115 ).

Plasterer 108p 115 b

Bricklayer 108p 115 t. Slater 108p 115

Gratebuilder and Tilefixer 108p 115

Overalls

Except where the authority provides and launders overalls, an overall allowance of 11 5p is payable w.e.f. 1.1.2001 to Painters and Painters' Apprentices on condition that they provide themselves with freshly laundered overalls at least once a week.

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