text: Chapter 6
  CONDITIONS FOR REQUISITIONED WORK
  6-130. Requisitioned work may only be carried out in the occupied territory where the persons whose
  services have been requisitioned are resident, and such persons, so far as possible, are to be kept in their usual
  place of employment. Workers must be paid a fair wage, and the work must be proportionate to their physical
  and intellectual capacities. The legislation in force in the occupied country concerning working conditions
  and safeguards as regards, in particular, such matters as wages, hours of work, equipment, preliminary
  training, and compensation for occupational accidents and diseases are to apply to the protected persons
  assigned to the work (GC art. 51).
  SERVICES THAT MAY BE REQUIRED
  6-131. The services that may be obtained from inhabitants by requisition include those of professionals,
  such as engineers, physicians, and nurses, and of artisans and laborers, such as clerks, carpenters, butchers,
  bakers, and truck drivers. The officials and employees of (1) railways, trucking companies, airlines, canals,
  and river or coastal steamship companies; (2) cable, telegraph, telephone, radio, postal and similar services;
  (3) gas, electric, and water works; and (4) sanitary authorities, whether employed by the State or private
  companies, may be requisitioned to perform their duties only so long as the duties required do not directly
  concern the operations of war against their own country. The Occupying Power may also requisition labor to
  restore the general condition of the public works to that of peacetime, including the repair of roads, bridges,
  railways, and telecommunication networks, and to perform services on behalf of the local population, such
  as the care of the wounded and sick, and the burial of the dead (DOD Law of War Manual, 11.20.2.1).
  6-132. In general, police, firefighters, prison guards, and others who provide services essential to good order
  and security in occupied territory may be compelled by an Occupying Power to continue to provide those
  services. Such a requirement is consistent with the Occupying power’s obligation to maintain public order in
  occupied territory. These officials, however, may not be required to participate in military operations or other
  measures aimed at countering belligerent acts against the Occupying Power that are performed by privileged
  combatants under the law of war. For example, civilian police forces in occupied territory may not be
  compelled to provide security for an occupying force against attacks in compliance with the law of war
  launched by lawful combatants, including resistance fighters who, if captured, would be entitled to POW
  status under the GPW (see paragraphs 3-14 through 3-30 regarding POW status). On the other hand, such
  police forces may be required to continue to perform their normal policing functions with respect to actual
  or threatened criminal acts, even when the victim of such acts is the Occupying Power.
  TYPES OF LABOR THAT MAY NOT BE COMPELLED
  6-133. Generally, an Occupying Power may not compel protected persons to perform certain types of labor.
  The Occupying Power may not compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces. Further,
  no pressure or propaganda that aims at securing voluntary enlistment is permitted (GC art. 51).
  6-134. Protected persons may not be compelled to undertake any work that would involve them in the
  obligation of taking part in military operations (GC art. 51). This prohibition would preclude requisitioning
  their services in work directly promoting the ends of the war, such as construction of fortifications,
  entrenchments, and military airfields, or the transportation of supplies or ammunition in the zone of
  operations.
  6-135. A belligerent is forbidden to force the inhabitants of territory occupied by it to furnish information
  about the army of the other belligerent, or about its means of defense (HR art. 44).
  6-136. In no case may requisition of labor lead to a mobilization of workers in an organization of a military
  or semi-military character (GC art. 51).
  6-137. The Occupying Power may not compel protected persons to employ forcible means to ensure the
  security of the installations where protected persons are performing compulsory labor (GC art. 51).
  6-138. Although the GC prohibits protected persons from being compelled to provide certain work related
  to military operations, there is no prohibition in the law of war to such persons being employed voluntarily
  and for pay in such work (see DOD Law of War Manual, 11.20.4).