• Queen Elizabeth II was given a state funeral on Monday, and many UK workers got the day off.

• Amazon gave its workers eight hours of extra holiday to mark the event, despite many working ten-hour days.

• Amazon workers told Insider they had to make up the difference using their personal time off.

As Elizabeth II was laid to rest in a funeral ceremony on Monday the UK stopped to watch.

When the Queen's funeral date was set the UK government declared it would be a bank holiday, meaning employers could decide whether to give their employees the day off.

Many businesses including large multinationals such as McDonald's announced they would shut their doors during the funeral. For some UK workers the time-off was not paid, as reported by Insider's Bethany Dawson.

At Amazon though, the wheels of industry kept turning.

Two workers told Insider that the retail giant went part-way to giving its workers time off to mark the event, but stopped short of giving them a full shift off.

Both workers requested anonymity for fear of retaliation from the company.

The Amazon workers in separate warehouses said that the company gave staff an extra eight hours of time off.

Many Amazon workers work four 10-hour shifts meaning to actually have the day off they'd need to sub in two hours of their personal allotted time off, both workers told Insider.

Insider viewed a post on Amazon's worker app Amazon A to Z that confirmed the company was offering eight hours of time off on the day of the funeral.

The same post said workers were welcome to watch the televised state funeral on-site and use 90 minutes of their holiday allowance.

It also said they could work the full day and use the additional holiday another time.

One part-time worker said HR told warehouse workers that the company had selected eight hours because this was what corporate workers would receive, and it wanted to keep the allowance equal.

He added part-time workers were only offered a proportion of the eight hours off depending on how many hours they worked per week — so while a full-time worker who works 40 hours a week got eight hours, a worker with a 20-hour work week only got four.