Work holding money

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Hi all

I have become self employed (sub-contracting) i deliver parcels for yodel via a service provider and they are making me wait 7 weeks before i get paid and i have 2 kids a mortgage and need food petrol and to pay my car tax and car insurance and i have Ј0 can they legally do this as all the response i have from them is all there money is tied up in fuel for the vans but everyone else is paid on the 16th of every month

please help

thanx alot

Ben

Best answers:

• By everyone else, I presume you mean employees of the company.
  Contracting or self employment is a different thing altogether.
  I presume you raise invoices on a weekly/monthly basis. Unless you can come to some arrangement with the company you will have to put up with it.
  Do everything in writing.
• i have only been there 2 weeks and they have 40 people self employed they get there money on the 16th of every month so surley i should of got 2 weeks money today?
  sorry if im sounding thick im new to all this
  Ben
• Youre not sounding thick at all, you need to ask them why you are not being paid the same date as them. Are you on time with your invoices.
• Try asking in https://www.parcelforum.co.uk/ , they will know what normally happens.
• When I've contracted I've generally invoiced at the ned of the month, with payment terms of up to 30 days.
  So basically I could be paid 2 months in arrears.
  (The government baloney about contractors being disguised employees cleverly ignores things like that.)
• If you are not actually getting paid, is your assumption that you are self employed correct?
  Maybe they see you more as a volunteer?