Hermes courier: 'I felt pressured to work while caring for my dying son'

Worker claims lack of support made her fear losing job with firm, which faces legal challenge from self-employed couriersAmandeep Kaur, 29, a Hermes courier from Leicester, was in the back of an ambulance rushing her seriously ill son to hospital when she first felt the pressure to get back to work. It was two weeks before Christmas, one of the busiest periods for Britain’s booming parcel delivery industry, but Kaur’s six-year-old, Sukhmanjeet, had collapsed at home and she could not