Whooly final invoice payment date - horrible contract clause...

[Dominic Connor]

Do you have the name of the person who deals with contracts at the client?

If so tell the agency by email that if they don't contact you about payment today you will get in touch with that particular person to advise them that the agency are refusing to pay their subcontractors on time.

That's a good idea, aoften there is a clause in the contract the agent has with the client that says the agent must pay contractors on time. Easy to see why, the client doesn't want the hassle or contractors walking off because they haven't been paid.

Agencies do go bust, sometimes owing contractors real money and that's a serious bit of grief for any outfit that uses contractors and of course looking like you might go bust is a good way to actually go bust, so the threat of a call to the client has teeth.