Mackenzie A. Irwin

Practice Areas

Disability Insurance Law, Employment Law

Location

Ottawa, Toronto

Experience

Mackenzie Irwin is an Ontario employment lawyer and a Senior Associate with Samfiru Tumarkin LLP’s Labour and Employment Law practice group.

Working through the firm’s Toronto and Ottawa offices, she is proficient in all aspects of employment law and long-term disability (LTD) insurance.

Matters she can assist with include, but aren’t limited to:

• Wrongful dismissals in Ontario
• Constructive dismissals
• Termination for cause and without cause in Ontario
• Severance pay and severance package negotiations
• Human rights issues
• Employment contract drafting and disputes
• Employee misclassification
• Workplace harassment and sexual harassment
• Discrimination at work
• Temporary layoffs in Ontario

Mackenzie has successfully advocated for her clients before the Ontario Superior Court and various Provincial and Federal Boards and Tribunals. She leverages her experience to formulate creative solutions to complex legal problems. Read reviews about Mackenzie.

Mackenzie articled in the Toronto office of a global law firm, where she worked primarily on management-side employment issues. She assisted in advising employers on a broad range of workplace issues including allegations of human rights discrimination, occupational health and safety, worker’s compensation, accommodation, and employment-related litigation.

Mackenzie spent her first few years of practice at a boutique Toronto employment law firm, before joining Samfiru Tumarkin LLP in 2020.

Mackenzie remains actively involved in the ski racing community. She currently serves on the Board of the National Ski Academy, and is an avid member of Craigleith Ski Club. You can often find her competing in the adult house league appropriately dubbed the “Going Downhill League”.

When not skiing down the mountains, Mackenzie can be found hiking up them. Always looking forward to her next adventure, she loves the mountains and is a fervent hiker.