Blood couriers launch case challenging self-employed status

Couriers working for The Doctors Laboratory, which provides services for the NHS, say they get no holiday or sick payCouriers carrying emergency blood supplies and delivering passports have kicked off two new challenges to the gig economy as MPs debate how to clarify workers’ employment status.Five cyclists, motorcyclists and van drivers carrying emergency blood supplies to hospitals and samples to laboratories on Tuesday launched a claim challenging their self-employed status in the first