Council staff will be given an extra day’s holiday next summer so they can celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The local authority has agreed to give employees Friday, June 3 off – apart from those who will be required to work, such as carers.
Schools will also close for the day when the four nations come together over a four-day holiday weekend from Thursday, June 2 until Sunday, June 5 inclusive to celebrate the Queen’s 70-year reign.
However, those who want to join in a national four-day celebration will have to take a day off from their own annual leave.
Members of West Dunbartonshire Council’s corporate services committee discussed the options at a recent meeting.
Victoria Rodgers, chief officer of people and technology, said: “As this committee will know, there is an extended holiday weekend to mark the Queen’s Jubilee.
“Additional leave is a matter devolved to each local authority and consequently there is some variation across the country.
“The trade unions have universally agreed with us that Friday, June 3 would be a day of closure for all except for those services, which are still required.”
She said leave would be granted to those contracted to work on June 3, adding that those who do not require to work then cannot take the day off at another time.
She said: “The council are giving leave to everyone who is contracted to work on that day.
“Our colleagues who work under the health and social care partnership umbrella will be asked to work on that Friday as they would on any other day of closure.”
There will be an extensive programme of public events to celebrate the anniversary which falls on June 6, 2022.
A jubilee medal will also be created and awarded to public services including representatives of the Armed Forces, the emergency services and Her Majesty’s prison service. This tradition stretches back to the reign of Queen Victoria when an official medal was designed to mark her 50th anniversary on the throne.
