Freelance Couriers, Intrusive Footpaths, Care Workers
The freelance delivery drivers working with online retailers say they are being asked to work bank holidays and six-day weeks. What is the human cost of e-commerce?
Madonna famously went to a public inquiry to stop people roaming over her country estate of 142 hectares. But it is not just the rich and famous who are bothered by Rights of Way - we talk to the woman who came home to find picnickers in her back garden. She's now campaigning to get the law changed.
The popularity of online shopping means delivery drivers are being asked to work six days a week and now on bank holidays as well, to earn forty pence a parcel. Is there really any such thing as free or cheap delivery?
We speak to the care worker caught between disappointed families and the impossible timetables imposed by her employer.
PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
PRODUCER: OLIVE CLANCY.
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Short Care Appointments
The care worker caught between disappointed clients and her impossible schedule
Duration: 06:19
Publishing Fraud
Convictions for those defrauding thousands of small businesses
Duration: 06:04
Stolen Goods
Researchers find it's very easy to offload goods on the highstreet
Duration: 04:29
Public Footpaths
Is the right to roam getting out of hand?
Duration: 07:34
Shelling Out For Hair Products
Do more bobs mean we're out of recession?
Duration: 03:09
Online Delivery
The drivers working 6 days a week and bank holidays too to deliver our online shopping
Duration: 08:53
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- Wed 25 Mar 2015 12:16麻豆社 Radio 4
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