Maddie Axelrod

Maddie Axelrod

Maddie Axelrod

Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Maddie Axelrod is a management-side labour and employment lawyer in BLG’s Toronto office. Her practice includes employment, labour, human rights, and education law.

Maddie’s hybrid practice comprises both advice-based solicitor work and advocacy-based litigation work. Maddie also focuses on executive compensation for hospitals, school boards, and other broader public sector organizations.

Within her practice, Maddie acts for private and public sector employers in a variety of issues, including employee terminations, discipline, restrictive covenants and employment standards. Her expertise also extends to contracts and policies, health and safety, collective bargaining, unfair labour practice complaints, and human
rights applications.

Maddie summered and articled with BLG, and returned as an associate following her call to the bar.

Insights & Events

  • Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021: Considerations for employers in Ontario
  • Parts of employer vaccine policy found unreasonable in arbitration
  • The right to bare arms: Considerations for COVID-19 vaccines in the workplace
  • Trends to watch in 2021 – Vaccines: key issues in Canada
  • Mandatory COVID-19 testing found reasonable in Ontario care home
  • Changes to COVID-19 safety requirements: Takeaways for Ontario employers & schools
  • Proposed Changes to School Board Executive Compensation
  • Proposed Changes to Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation
  • Supreme Court Of Canada Finds Teacher Guilty Of Voyeurism For Camera Pen Recordings
  • Not So Full and Final? Recent Decisions Permitting Release Leaks
  • Presenter, “Human Rights Update”, BLG’s Labour and Employment Symposium, November 2018
  • Presenter, “Navigating the Employment Standards Act”, Human Resources Professionals Association Seminar, October 2018 and November 2017
  • Executive Salaries Frozen Effective August 13, 2018
  • Police Record Checks Legislation Comes Into Force November 1, 2018
  • Presenter, “Human Rights Update: Race, Creed, Addiction, and More”, BLG’s Labour and Employment Breakfast Club, September 2018
  • Executive Compensation Freeze Returns To The Broader Public Sector
  • Arbitrator Rules That Teachers Are Not Entitled To Additional Paid Days For Religious Observances
  • Presenter, “Protecting Students from Concussion Related Injuries”, Conference of Independent Schools Symposium, February 2018
  • Can A Severability Clause Save You? Ontario’s Top Court Weighs In On Termination Provisions, Again
  • Arbitrator rules boards not required to schedule ECEs for full-day kindergarten
  • Protecting Schools From Concussion-Related Headaches
  • Changes To Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation Framework
  • Presenter, “Developing and Implementing an Executive Compensation Program”, Ontario Hospital Association Webinar, February 2017
  • B.C. teachers win landmark Supreme Court ruling
  • Presenter, “Recent Trends in Damage Awards – Hint: They’re Not Going Down!”, BLG’s Labour and Employment Symposium, November 2016