"Ask the Law: Can workers demand extra pay for working overtime?", 5 August 2022

..."I work in a store at a mall for 12 hours a day, including weekends. The employer does not pay me extra wage for overtime work and tells me that working in malls does not include an additional salary for the worker"...

...The daily working hours should be defined in the labour contract. If the employee works extra hours than those defined in the contract then he/she is entitled to get paid for working overtime. Article 17 of Federal Decree-Law No. (33) Of 2021 regulating labor relations, defines working hours per day in the private sector as eight working hours per day, or 48 hours per week...

As per Article 19 of the law (The employer may instruct the worker to work overtime over the normal working hours, provided that they do not exceed two hours per day. The worker may not be instructed to work for more than that period...

If the work conditions necessitate that the worker works for more than the normal working hours, the excess period shall represent overtime, for which the worker shall receive a wage equal to the wage corresponding to the normal working hours, which is calculated according to the basic wage plus an increase of not less than (25%) twenty five per cent of that wage. If the work conditions require that the worker works overtime between 10pm and 4am, the worker shall be entitled, regarding the overtime, to receive the wage prescribed for the normal working hours calculated according to the basic wage plus an increase of not less than (50%) fifty per cent of that wage.