Delivery firm DPD improves conditions for workers after driver's death

Delivery firm DPD is to offer holiday and sick pay to thousands of drivers after it was criticised following the death of a worker who was fined for attending a medical appointment to treat his diabetes.DPD, which delivers parcels for retailers such as M&S, Amazon and John Lewis, said it would become the first parcel delivery company to introduce a self-employed worker contract.Delivery driver Don Lane, 53, from Dorset, died in January after, his widow said, he had missed three hospital appo