My bank have also informed me that they are going to close my account because I am a bad customer. I have to waist my time going to plead with them because the agency paid me late.

It will be 9 weeks before they pay me. It is costing me money in late payment fees because of their non payment - yet I cannot bill them for the same. I feel unhappy because it is costing me money to get to work as well. Insult to injury, they are paying an hourly rate agreed with the unions in 2008, not the rate agreed in 2011.

They say 1 month in arrears. They blame a problem with the application for my CRB for the delay in activating my contract and resulting delay in my pay. I work in Further Education. However, I do not feel liable for the problem with the delay in processing my CRB as they asked me to pilot a trial online application. I encountered glitches with the online application, informed IT help who did not respond to my email. I did call them to alert them too and I awaited further instruction from the IT staff - it didn't come. Eventually I sorted the problem myself through trial and error. Technically they should not have started me to work without the CRB clearance, I therefore feel their delaying my pay is unjust on this basis alone. Moreover, I had done some work for the same agency a few months earlier, as it was only a few days emergency cover they did not even bother with a CRB., neither did it interfere with my getting paid.

Is it lawful for an employment agency to make an employee wait 2 months before they receive any pay? I began working for an agency on 28/05/2012. I was expecting to be paid at the end of June for the days I worked in May. However, payment did not arrive and by the end of the first week of July I was becoming concerned. Payments were starting to fail to be paid as there were insufficient funds in my bank. On the 09/07/2012 I managed to contact HR of the agency who told me they would not pay me until 27/07/2012. My question is, does this contravene any employment legislation? Thanks for your advice.