MANY Deliveroo riders work for less than the minimum wage, earning as little as £2 an hour, while the company’s boss is in line for a £500 million payday, an investigation revealed today. 

The online food delivery company claims that riders are paid more than £10 an hour on average, but an unprecedented analysis of thousands of invoices by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that more than half of the couriers were paid less than that.

According to the study, one in three made less than £8.72, the national minimum wage for workers over 25. A cyclist in Yorkshire reported working 180 hours and being paid the equivalent of £2 an hour.