well you will get paid, anyone who didnlt turn in will have to take a days holiday if possible, but with it being near the end of the financial year lots will have no days left. It would have to be authorised abasence, which is unpaid anyway , so well done!
I only temp at the mo so I had to come in as like you said I wouldn't have got paid. I am going to call my boss (ie the guy who signs off my time sheet) and see what he says. Hopefully, as he is a nice guy, he will tell me to go home but still sign the whole day off for me. :-)