DPD to offer couriers sick pay and abolish fines after driver's death

Delivery firm to offer 6,000 drivers right to be classified as workers in wake of Don Lane’s deathThe courier company DPD is to offer all of its drivers sick and holiday pay and will abolish its controversial £150 daily fines for missing work, as part of wholesale reforms to its gig-working model sparked by the death of a driver it charged for attending a medical appointment to treat his diabetes and who later collapsed.The announcement came six weeks after the Guardian exposed the c