Dd is a student who started a full time summer job in June. When payday came at the end of June the employer told her she had started work after the cut off for the payroll run so they would pay her June's earnings along with July's at the end of July. We have had to pay her rent and all costs in the meantime which is really hard. Now she has been told that one of her references from a previous job still hasn't arrived and without two references she doesn't have a start date(?) so they won't pay her unless it arrives before July 14th. Her current employer has contacted the previous one - a national chain- but hasn't received anything. Dd contacted the branch manager where she worked and said she will go in and collect the reference ( there is no problem in them writing her one, she did well there and only left as it was a temporary Christmas job), but they said it has to come from head office. Its not DDS fault that they previous employer is pissing her about and she desperately needs to be paid at the end of July. We don't have the money to pay another months rent and food etc! Can her current employer refuse to pay her even though she will have worked for then for 6 weeks by end of July?