Excluded workers

Some groups of worker are excluded from the right to the minimum wage. These include: the genuinely self-employed; share fishermen; genuine volunteers and voluntary workers with a contract to work for expenses only for a voluntary organisation; prisoners; work experience students (as long as it lasts less than a year); some government training programmes and pre-apprenticeship training courses; students on sandwich courses; members of the armed forces; and schoolchildren aged under 16.