Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 791 in Riga in 2008 (23 September. No. 68, § 13) the rules on the minimum monthly wage and the minimum hourly rate Issued in accordance with article 61 of the law of work of the second part of rule 1, the minimum monthly salary in the normal working time and the minimum hourly rate. 2. the minimum monthly salary in the normal working time is 180 lats. The minimum hourly rate is $1.083. 3. Teenagers minimum hourly rate is $1.239. 4. Employees who are exposed to particular risks, for which the normal working time is seven hours per day and 35 hours per week, the minimum hourly rate is $1.239. 5. the month when hours of work are less than the annual average number of hours of work a month, employees whose salary with the contracted time minimum hourly rate of pay and who have completed all the monthly work hours, wages, minimum monthly wage, calculated wages increased by the difference between the calculated wages and the provision referred to in paragraph 2, the minimum monthly wage. 6. Employees whose salary tied chords normal working time and which serve all the monthly work hours, but for which the calculated salary is less than that referred to in paragraph 2, the provisions of the minimum monthly wage, calculated salary is increased by the difference between the calculated wages and the provision referred to in paragraph 2, the minimum monthly wage. 7. If an employee shall be paid average earnings for work normal business hours and it is estimated less than that referred to in paragraph 2, the provisions of the minimum monthly wage, it shall be increased by the difference between the calculated average earnings and the rules referred to in paragraph 2, the minimum monthly wage. 8. Be declared unenforceable in the Cabinet of Ministers of 28 august 2007 rules No 592 "rules on the minimum monthly wage and the minimum hourly rate" (Latvian journal, 2007, no. 142). 9. the rules shall enter into force on 1 January 2009. Prime Minister i. Godmanis Welfare Minister of the nose.