Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, what is it really like, we ask?

Being a delivery driver in the modern high-speed gig economy.

I like the flexibility of it.

I like the fact that if I don't feel like I need that money at the time,

I can just drop the block and go out and do whatever I want

and I've not got to justify that to anybody.

Well, he sounds happy enough, but is this flexibility all it's cracked up to be?

We ask an award-winning film director.

You're self-employed.

You're a warrior of the road, when in fact you're simply a driver with no rights.

No holiday pay, no sick pay, no pension, and you only get paid for the parcel you deliver.

So who's right? On the whole. That's Business Daily from the BBC.

You name it, I've done it. Concrete in, plumbing. Is that you two?

I've done it all. I'd rather work on my own now, be my own boss.

A moment there from a recently released movie. Sorry, I missed you.

A hard-hitting film drama aimed at exposing some of the uglier truths about life working in the so-called gig economy in the UK.

Gig workers are those employed by ride-sharing companies,

delivery firms, healthcare providers, you name it, on a freelance or a casual basis,

often with little or no formal contract to back that up.

Up to 5 million British people work at least partially this way. It's reckoned

that's about one-tenth of the working age population in Britain. Ken Loach is the internationally

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