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You and Yours: Freelance Couriers, Intrusive Footpaths, Care Workers

Freelance Couriers, Instrusive Footpaths, Care Workers

25/03/2015

Freelance Couriers, Intrusive Footpaths, Care Workers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Freelance Couriers, Intrusive Footpaths, Care Workers

The freelance delivery drivers being forced to work six-day weeks and bank holidays.

The freelance delivery drivers working with online retailers say they are being asked to work bank holidays and six-day weeks. What is the human cost of e-commerce?

Madonna famously went to a public inquiry to stop people roaming over her country estate of 142 hectares. But it is not just the rich and famous who are bothered by Rights of Way - we talk to the woman who came home to find picnickers in her back garden. She's now campaigning to get the law changed.

The popularity of online shopping means delivery drivers are being asked to work six days a week and now on bank holidays as well, to earn forty pence a parcel. Is there really any such thing as free or cheap delivery?

We speak to the care worker caught between disappointed families and the impossible timetables imposed by her employer.

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PRODUCER: OLIVE CLANCY.

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