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  6-139. All measures aiming at creating unemployment or restricting the opportunities offered to workers in
  occupied territory in order to induce them to work for the Occupying Power (GC art. 52).
  ACCESS TO PROTECTING POWER
  6-140. No contract, agreement, or regulation may impair the right of any worker, whether voluntary or not
  and wherever he or she may be, to apply to the representatives of the protecting power in order to request the
  protecting power’s intervention with the Occupying Power (GC art. 52). It would be improper, for example,
  to forbid workers who are protected persons, as a condition of work, to renounce their right to apply for
  assistance to the protecting power concerning work conditions or any other matter (see DOD Law of War
  Manual, 11.20.5.1).
  JUDGES AND OTHER PUBLIC OFFICIALS
  6-141. The Occupying Power may not alter the status of “public officials” or judges in the occupied
  territories, or in any way apply sanctions to or take any measures of coercion or discrimination against them,
  should they abstain from fulfilling their functions for reasons of conscience (GC art. 54). “Public officials”
  includes officials at both the national and local levels who fulfill public duties.
  6-142. This prohibition does not prejudice the application of the second paragraph of Article 51 of the GC.
  Thus, a public official may be compelled to work to meet the needs of the army of occupation or for public
  utility services, such as water, electricity, or sanitation.
  6-143. This prohibition does not affect the right of the Occupying Power to remove public officials from
  their posts. For example, the Occupying Power may remove the political leadership and other political agents
  from their posts to prevent them from undermining the Occupying Power’s administration.
  OATH OF OFFICIALS
  6-144. An Occupying Power may not require the inhabitants of occupied territory, including officials, to
  swear allegiance to it (HR art. 45). However, the Occupying Power may require such officials who continue
  in their offices to take an oath to perform their duties conscientiously and not to act to its prejudice. Any
  official who declines to take the oath may be removed; but, even if the official does not take the oath, the
  official is required to obey the legitimate orders of the Occupying Power as long as they remain in office.
  OFFICIALS’ SALARIES
  6-145. The salaries of civil officials of the hostile government who remain in the occupied territory and
  continue the work of their offices, especially those who can properly continue their work under the
  circumstances arising out of the war—such as judges, administrative or police officers, and officers of city
  or communal governments—are paid from the public revenues of the occupied territory, until the military
  government has reason wholly or partially to dispense with their services. Based on consistent practice,
  salaries or incomes connected with purely honorary titles would be suspended.
  PUBLIC FINANCE
  6-146. As a result of assuming the functions of government of the occupied territory, the financial
  administration of the occupied territory passes into the hands of the Occupying Power. During the occupation,
  the fiscal laws of the occupied territory or State remain in effect, but may be amended or suspended by the
  Occupying Power under certain circumstances, as discussed below.
  6-147. If in the occupied territory, the Occupying Power collects the taxes, dues, and tolls imposed for the
  benefit of the State, it must do so, as far as possible, in accordance with the rules of assessment and incidence
  in force, and shall in consequence be bound to defray the expenses of the administration of the occupied
  territory to the same extent as the ousted government was bound (HR art. 48). The first charge upon such
  taxes would be for the costs of the administration of the occupied territory. The balance may be used for the
  purpose of the Occupying Power. The Occupying Power may use tax revenue to defray the cost of
  maintaining order in the occupied territory or for expenditures that benefit the local population (for example,