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shall be set aside in all places of internment. Special playgrounds
shall be reserved for children and young people.
ART. 95. — The Detaining Power shall not employ internees as
workers, unless they so desire. Employment which, if undertaken
under compulsion by a protected person not in internment, would
involve a breach of Articles 40 or 51 of the present Convention, and
employment on work which is of a degrading or humiliating
character are in any case prohibited.
After a working period of six weeks, internees shall be free to give
up work at any moment, subject to eight days’ notice.
These provisions constitute no obstacle to the right of the
Detaining Power to employ interned doctors, dentists and other
medical personnel in their professional capacity on behalf of their
fellow internees, or to employ internees for administrative and
maintenance work in places of internment and to detail such
persons for work in the kitchens or for other domestic tasks, or to
require such persons to undertake duties connected with the
protection of internees against aerial bombardment or other war
risks. No internee may, however, be required to perform tasks for
which he is, in the opinion of a medical officer, physically unsuited.
The Detaining Power shall take entire responsibility for all
working conditions, for medical attention, for the payment of
wages, and for ensuring that all employed internees receive
compensation for occupational accidents and diseases. The
standards prescribed for the said working conditions and for
compensation shall be in accordance with the national laws and
regulations, and with the existing practice; they shall in no case be
inferior to those obtaining for work of the same nature in the same
district. Wages for work done shall be determined on an equitable
basis by special agreements between the internees, the Detaining
Power, and, if the case arises, employers other than the Detaining
Power, due regard being paid to the obligation of the Detaining
Power to provide for free maintenance of internees and for the
medical attention which their state of health may require. Internees
permanently detailed for categories of work mentioned in the third
paragraph of this Article shall be paid fair wages by the Detaining
Power. The working conditions and the scale of compensation for
occupational accidents and diseases to internees, thus detailed, shall
not be inferior to those applicable to work of the same nature in the
same district.
Working
conditions
ART. 96. — All labour detachments shall remain part of and
dependent upon a place of internment. The competent authorities
Labour
detachments