Equipment that is repaired or adjusted will then need to be to be requalified either by the Inspector or an approved verifier. Weighing and measuring equipment used in business must be passed as fit for use for trade by a Weights and Measures Inspector or an approved verifier. Standard temperature accounting: weights and measures Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016 We publish guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors on the regulation of weights and measures equipment, which is also relevant to local authority trading standards: Weights and Measures Bulletins Weights and measures equipment Local authorities often ask us to clarify technical or enforcement issues that can be significant to businesses, and we publish our responses in bulletins. Most UK weights and measures legislation is enforced by Local Authority Trading Standards (or the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland).įor business-specific advice on complying with the regulations, contact your local Trading Standards service. In response to the strikes, a Royal Mail spokesperson said: “We remain hopeful of entering talks this week with the CWU through ACAS to resolve our dispute on change and pay.Resources available to you from the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) include guidance on weights and measures equipment and packaged goods. “For me, it’s not about the pay, terms and conditions and certain things, yeah, I’m not happy about stuff like that, but for me, it’s about saving the Postal Service for the country, that’s what’s most important.” Royal Mail vehicles at the Salford distribution center. “I mean, there won’t be a postman on the street six days a week.
The strike also wants to bring awareness to the current rumours of Royal Mail selling itself off to Luxembourg and rebranding to become a new national postal company, a rumour which has yet to be confirmed.Ĭhris said: “That’s why we’re fighting, because without this now, there won’t be a Royal Mail. Workers like Jason, who worked 10 years for Royal Mail, and David, for 43 years, complained that this will not only affect present workers but also future ones. This strike has become one of the biggest in Royal Mail’s history with 165,000 workers joining, sparked by frustration towards a lack of wages to meet a cost-of-living standard and alleged “poor treatment”. Royal Mail has seen its estimated losses go from £250 million to £450 million since the strikes began in late September, which means job cuts are now a danger. “So that’s all the terms and conditions we want to get rid of.” Royal Mail Workers at the Picket Line.
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“We have a set pattern of working hours, which we want to do away with and introduce flexible hours, we have compulsory Sunday work, and they want to remove our full sick pay benefits.
So, at the moment, we are also talking about changing our start times. He said: “This is mostly about our pay terms and conditions. “We’re still here on the picket line today.”Ĭhris has worked for the company for 35 years and claims to have seen and experienced unjust treatment from the delivery company multiple times. Thompson (CEO of Royal Mail) last week came out and threatened us, if the strikes continue, with 10,000 redundancies. They say they are fighting for better pay and working conditions and will not be put off by the threat of redundancy.Ĭhris Mcardle, sub-representative for Royal Mail Salford, said: “We don’t want to leave our jobs. Royal Mail workers in Salford’s distribution centre remained defiant on the picket line today as they took part in their seventh day of strike action in four weeks.
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