Excluded workers
[ch 4: pages 98-99]Some individuals are excluded from the right to the NMW. They include:
• the genuinely self-employed (that is, anyone, in business on their own account, selling goods and services to their own clients and customers on an arms-length basis (see Chapter 2));
• share fishermen;
• genuine volunteers (see Chapter 2), and voluntary workers with a contract to work for expenses only for a voluntary organisation;
• family members and au pairs who are genuinely treated as one of the family;
• company directors;
• prisoners;
• higher and further education students on a work placement or “sandwich” course lasting less than a year;
• workers on a government employment programme;
• workers on a Job Centre Plus work trial for up to six months (aimed at unskilled young workers aged 16 – 24);
• workers on government pre-apprenticeship training courses;
• members of the armed forces; and
• school children aged under 16.