Don Lane was not employed by delivery firm DPD when he died. The 53-year-old, from Christchurch in Dorset, was self-employed, part of the UK’s booming yet precarious gig economy. Lane, who had worked ...

DPD’s decision to class all its drivers as workers is the latest in a growing list of concessions made by gig economy firms. But there’s still a long way to go. Around 6,000 people working for the ...

The replacement component was sitting in a courier depot 25 kilometres away. But standard delivery would take hours — time the hospital simply didn’t have. That’s when DPD got the call. Within minutes ...