Amandeep Kaur, 29, has spoken to the Guardian newspaper about the stress she felt as a Hermes courier from Leicester, when her seriously ill son was rushed to hospital in the back of an ambulance.
Over the coming days, Kaur said she called her manager with updates about her son, but as a self-employed courier with no employment contract, she felt her job was under threat.
Her son died on 19 December 2015. Kaur, who also has a six-year-old daughter, has worked for Hermes for four years. She makes deliveries seven days a week and works an evening job in a pizza takeaway.
