 So, hello, I'm Kristen Joy, and this is Your Rights at Work, and our guest today is Mohamed Ahmed, and he's an educator at the Fair Work Center. Welcome, Mohamed. Hi, Kristen. Thank you for inviting me. This is exciting work. We're excited to have you. Thank you so much for meeting with me to talk about workers' rights in Washington state. Can you start by telling us a little bit about your job at the Fair Work Center? Yes, it's very simple. I am a community engagement and a base building educator at Fair Work Center, and my primary focus is to engage as many low wage workers about the rights of work. So, our topic today is overtime and overtime pay. So, Mohamed, what is overtime pay? It's when all hourly workers are owed overtime pay of one and a half times their hourly rate, their hourly pay, when they work more than 40 hours in a seven day work week schedule. So, if I make $15 an hour then, and I work more than 40 hours, what would my overtime pay be? So, if you're getting paid $15 an hour, your overtime pay would be 15 divided by 2, $2250. So, you have $15 an hour, and then so $750 is the halfway point. So, we can add that to the $15. So, $2250 is what you should be expecting for the hourly rate if your pay is $15 an hour for working anytime over 40 hours in a seven day work week. Okay, a seven day work week. What if I get paid every two weeks? So, for example, maybe in the first week of my pay period, I work 50 hours. But then in the second week, they cut my hours and I only work 30 hours. Should I get overtime pay or not? So, when we say 40 hours in seven days, what does seven day period look like, right? So, when does the day of the week start at your workplace? Now, most employers set their schedules in every week to start on a certain day and end on a seven consecutive day, right? So, if the employer has not set a work week, it defaults Sunday to Saturday. If it's not set, but if it is set, they will let you know. Sometimes it's tricky because it won't always line up with your payday overtime. So, you should get paid for the 10 hours of overtime at the rate of 1.5 in the week. That should work for 50 hours. So what you want to look at is the number of hours you worked in a seven day work week. That's consecutively set by your employer. Well, that sounds good to me, but how can a worker tell if they got overtime pay for those extra hours? Yes, so overtime pay, as we mentioned, is 1.5 times the regular hourly rate for all hours worked over 40 hours in a week. So, what they can do is they can determine their regular hourly rate and then multiply that by that 1.5 hourly, 1.5 rate for every hour worked over the 40 hours. So, if you worked in one, I believe the scenario was I worked 50 hours. So, 40 hours is what you'll be getting paid your regular. That 10 hours, you should be multiplying that too. If we take the rate of the example that we took earlier, which was $22.50. So it would go 10 times 22.50. And that should reflect on your paycheck. Okay. It should be another line in the paycheck. So Mohamed, is there anything else you'd like to share with us about overtime pay? Yes, it's very important for workers, employees to know that they cannot waive their right to overtime pay. They cannot. So employers must pay overtime to eligible workers, regardless of the employer's size. It doesn't matter how many people are working there. Well, thank you so much Mohamed from the Fair Work Center for talking to us about overtime pay today. And I hope you tune in to the next episode of your rights at work. My pleasure. Thank you.