The UK stopped to watch as Elizabeth II was buried.
When the Queen's funeral date was announced, the UK government made it a bank holiday, meaning employers could decide if to give their employees a day off.
Mcdonald's and many other businesses decided to close their doors during the funeral. The time off was not paid for some UK workers.
The wheels of industry continued to turn at Amazon.
The retail giant gave its workers time off to mark the event, but didn't give them a full shift off, according to two workers.
For fear of being retaliated against, both workers asked for anonymity.
The workers said that the company gave them more time off.
Both workers told Insider that they would need to sub in two hours of their allotted time off if they wanted to have the day off.
According to a post on Amazon A to Z, the company was offering eight hours of time off on the day of the funeral.
Workers are allowed to use 90 minutes of their holiday allowance to watch the state funeral on TV.
They could use the additional holiday and work the whole day.
One part-time worker said that HR told warehouse workers that the company wanted to keep the allowance equal and that they had been told eight hours was what corporate workers would get.
While a full-time worker who works 40 hours a week gets eight hours, a worker who works 20 hours a week only gets four.
He had to make up the difference because he was still working full time as a part time worker.
An internal company chat log shows that a part-time warehouse worker is angry at being given six hours and ten-hour shifts.
Managers were able to deny the time off if the workers requested it.
The part-time worker took some time off so he could attend the funeral with his family.
He told Insider that this will never happen again in his life.
He said that it was the right thing to do because of what she had sacrificed.
When contacted by Insider, Amazon didn't say anything about the report.
We were sad about the death of Queen Elizabeth II. All UK employees were offered additional holidays to allow them to pay their respects after the Bank Holiday.
Martha Dark, director of Foxglove, a UK legal nonprofit that works closely with the GMB union that represents warehouse workers, told InsiderAmazon refused to be straight with workers, leaving them in the dark and expecting them
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