 So hello, I'm Kristen Joy, and this is your Rights at Work. And our guest today is Johnny Arenas, and Johnny has two jobs, maybe more. He's a self-employed house cleaner, a promotora or educator with the Workers' Rights Program at Casa Latina. And he's passionate about the rights of domestic workers, such as house cleaners and nannies. And one day he would like to see domestic workers receive overtime pay, paid sick time, benefits, and more. Welcome, Johnny. Oh, good afternoon. Thank you for having me today. My name is Johnny Arenas, and so proud to be a member of Casa Latina. And I am here for answer any questions that you have for me today. Can you tell us a little bit more about your organization Casa Latina and your job as a promotora, helping other workers learn about their rights? Casa Latina is a nonprofit organization. I know about Casa Latina back in 2017. I have a little history about how I found Casa Latina. It's then to my husband. Because he told me that Casa Latina, I can look for new jobs and I'm so proud to be a house cleaner. And that's how I started working side by side with Casa Latina. And Casa Latina is dedicated to help the immigrant community, Latina community, and then being working with the community for, I think, over two decades. Because I love to interact with other people, not just only with the Latino, because a lot of workers, they have to know their rights. And that's when I started working with a program of promotor or promotora. And for example, here in Seattle, we have the Domestic Worker Development Rights that is helping to all the professional house cleaner to, for example, the minimum wage or the pay that they are working with each employer. We are working, we are all hard, strong to get a new amendment to the Domestic Worker Development Rights for get our safe, basic and safe time. Because during the COVID, we was one of the industry that we didn't receive a lot of benefits. Our topic today is paid sick and safe time. So, Johnny, can you tell us what is paid sick and safe time and do all workers in Washington state have the right to get paid if they are sick? Yes. According to the law, if you are working 40 hours per week, the employer has to give you one hour for safe time or a basic or safe time. And so what if someone works part-time? What if they only work 20 hours a week? Are they still eligible for paid sick time? Yes. As soon as you make 40 hours, you receive one hour for 40 hours as you work. If you work in this week 20 hours and the next week you work 20 hours, when they combine, it's kind of like a 40 hours, you receive one hour for basic or for safe time. That's good news. That's good news. Now, when can a worker use paid sick and safe time? For example, can they take a paid sick day if their child is sick? The basic or safe time you can use if one of the members from the family, if your kid is sick, or the husband, or the mother, or any who live in the household. Are there any other special rules for using paid sick and safe time? For example, do you have to bring a doctor's note? Only for the fourth day, well, you have to have approved because after the fourth day, it's meaning that you are leaving the job. For the COVID, how many days that we took and we stay at home? In case a person got the virus and got sick, it was more than four days. And you have to approve that. So let me make sure I understand correctly. So for the first three days that you call in sick, you do not have to show a doctor's note. You do not have to provide evidence. But on the fourth day, you have to show evidence. For example, you are asking for use your basic and safe time. You're asking to employer like I am sick. But then after the three days, you have to approve. Is there anything else that you would like to tell us about paid sick and safe time? All the workers that have a right to speak up, especially if they're sick or a member from the family or something like that, we don't want to happen with that. Please use safe time because that's what I created for protect employees. Well, I want to say thank you so much, Johnny from Casa Latina for educating us all today about paid sick and safe time. And I hope that you tune in next time for your rights at work.