A Royal Mail subsidiary delivery firm, eCourier, has admitted that it wrongly classified a bicycle courier as an independent contractor, thus denying him employee benefits, reports The Guardian. Now eCourier has been forced to launch a review into whether it is wrongly classifying hundreds of couriers as self-employed contractors. The employee, Demille Flanore, was promised £545 by the firm to settle the case.  Nearly all of eCourier’s 350 delivery riders are on the same employment terms as Flanore. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, said the admission by eCourier was “a major sea change” for the gig economy and called on them to “immediately guarantee worker status to all of its couriers”.