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About 500 Toronto police officers who worked the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, in which violent protests were met with mass arrests and some cases of police violence, will be paid an extra $100 because they did it on their summer vacation, an arbitrator has ruled.

The Toronto Police Association agreed that their employer was “fully entitled to cancel scheduled vacations in order to deal with the policing emergency,” but disputed their compensation, according to the ruling by arbitrator William Kaplan.

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“In the employer’s view, no one had his or her vacation cancelled. What happened here was that some members … were required to work on a vacation day.”

Mr. Kaplan decided that affected officers should have been given a choice between pay for the worked vacation day or a vacation day to be taken later.

Three years after the fact, he decided the easiest remedy was $100 per day of cancelled vacation.