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Bicycle couriers challenge job rights

When you spend up to 50 hours a week cycling round London delivering parcels and are told what to do, when to do it and wear a company ID why don't you get holiday pay, the national minimum wage and other employment rights? It's because you're self-employed and not an employee. Four bicycle couriers are taking their companies to employment tribunal saying they should be counted as employees. Our Legal Eagle, Clive Coleman reports.

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