Excluded workers 




Some individuals are excluded from the right to the NMW. They include:


• the genuinely self-employed (see Chapter 2); 




• share fishermen; 




• genuine volunteers, and voluntary workers with a contract to work for expenses only for a voluntary organisation; 




• family members and au pairs who are 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 




• schoolchildren aged under 16.