Has anyone a view on the implications of the obligation to pay people who had traditionally been taken on as work placement/work trial and or an internship?  I have seen on the Workplace Relations site that under the National Minimum Wage Act that all employees engaged under a contract of employment have a right to receive the minimum wage.  The WRC goes on to define a contract of employment as any contract whereby an individual agrees with another person, to do or to perform personally, any work or serice for that person or a third person.