Property News · July 18, 2016

Life as a Hermes driver: 'They offload all the risk on to the courier'


One man’s experience of the dangerous, exhausting and poorly paid work on offer at the online delivery groupThree days after I applied online to be a Hermes “lifestyle courier” I was sitting in a working men’s club near Halifax with 18 other recruits to find out what the job involved. There were young mothers, young men like me, and a couple more middle-class guys. It sounded very promising. The manager explained how we would be independent couriers. We could take time out to get our hair cut, pick up our kids from school. They said that if we did one roughly two-hour round of about 50 parcels, we could expect between £400 and £700 a month, but it was not clear if that was before or after we’d paid expenses. None of the detail about having to pay for your own fuel and running costs was explained, though she did say there was a 55p-a-day opt-in car insurance and there was no sick pay and no holiday pay. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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