Overtime Rules in Latvia

The daily threshold is 8 hours and the weekly threshold is 40 hours. Hours worked beyond either point count as overtime and are paid at 2× the regular rate.

Where a figure is not shown, Latvia does not set that threshold nationally, or it is left to a collective agreement. Check the source before applying it to a specific contract.

A limit on weekly hours applies in Latvia, but the current figure could not be confirmed against the source cited below and is deliberately not printed. Check likumi.lv before planning long weeks, and bear in mind that averaging over a reference period changes how any limit applies to a single week.

A rest break of at least 30 minutes applies once a shift exceeds 6 hours. Unpaid breaks are excluded from paid hours, which is how the hours calculator treats the break field by default.

Some hours are priced by the kind of day they fall on rather than by how many hours were worked. The rates below are statutory minimums in Latvia, and an agreement may set more. The calculator applies the daily and weekly thresholds above, not these: it cannot know which day of your week was a rest day or a holiday, so apply them yourself.

Work on a holiday is paid at not less than 2× the ordinary hourly rate.

Select Latvia in the hours calculator or the timesheet and these thresholds and the 2× multiplier are applied to your week automatically. Overtime hours are shown on their own line rather than folded into the total, so the figure can be checked against the statute.