Industrial Relations

Industrial Relations MatarazzIR was established as a non-profit trader in 2014. MatarazzIR is the trading name of business partners Lucio Matarazzo Pty Ltd and Catherine Matarazzo.

We sell informational work contract resources under trademark to help skilled workers move across work types at short notice - when there is demand for skilled work.

Under one systemIR Portal brings it allNo guessing neededAcross sites and teams, rules don’t always sit in one place. Aw...
01/03/2026

Under one system
IR Portal brings it all
No guessing needed

Across sites and teams, rules don’t always sit in one place. Awards, rates, classifications, obligations — they’re often scattered across documents, emails, and memory.

Under one system, the IR Portal brings it all into view. One structured space to check the right award, confirm conditions, and see how obligations apply clearly and consistently.

Clear structure, clear direction.

From site to screenPay Estimator appYour value made clearOn site, work moves fast — shifts change, roles overlap, hours ...
26/02/2026

From site to screen
Pay Estimator app
Your value made clear

On site, work moves fast — shifts change, roles overlap, hours stretch. It’s not always easy to see how time on the ground translates into pay.

From site to screen, the Pay Estimator app brings that work into view. Enter your role, hours, and conditions — and see how award rates, penalties, and loadings apply.

Instead of guessing, you can estimate. Instead of wondering, you can check.

Peppimenarti, Pirlangimpi sitesReal estate valuationMeasuring, noting, movingIn Peppimenarti and Pirlangimpi, land and b...
23/02/2026

Peppimenarti, Pirlangimpi sites
Real estate valuation
Measuring, noting, moving

In Peppimenarti and Pirlangimpi, land and buildings are more than structures — they reflect use, purpose, and community life. Homes, facilities, and shared spaces change over time, and understanding their condition and worth requires careful attention to detail and local context.

Because property needs to be assessed for sale, lease, funding, or planning, there is ongoing work in inspecting sites, measuring improvements, reviewing records, and documenting value. Real estate valuation connects physical place with formal assessment and decision-making.

This can lead to local roles in inspections, valuation support, site documentation, admin, and coordination. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award, including work connected to real estate valuation services.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Atitjere, light shifts slowMutitjulu, red earth warmsAcquisition agency servicesIn Atitjere and Mutitjulu, land and comm...
22/02/2026

Atitjere, light shifts slow
Mutitjulu, red earth warms
Acquisition agency services

In Atitjere and Mutitjulu, land and community spaces carry history, purpose, and shared use. Buildings, facilities, and parcels of land change hands or shift in use over time. These movements require care, clarity, and proper coordination to ensure transitions happen smoothly.

Because land and property are acquired, transferred, or reorganised, there is steady work in preparing documentation, coordinating parties, reviewing records, and supporting compliance. Acquisition processes connect community needs with formal agreements and clear pathways forward.

This can lead to local roles in admin, coordination, property support, inspections, and agency assistance. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award, including work connected to acquisition agency services.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Ngukurr, engines idle lowLajamanu, grass seeds driftStock and station agencyIn Ngukurr and Lajamanu, cattle stations and...
18/02/2026

Ngukurr, engines idle low
Lajamanu, grass seeds drift
Stock and station agency

In Ngukurr and Lajamanu, cattle stations and grazing land cover large areas. Stock movements, land use, and station operations are part of everyday life. Work often happens across long distances and relies on people who understand the land and the rhythm of station activity.

Because stock and stations need to be managed, there is ongoing work in coordinating movements, keeping records, checking properties, and supporting sales or leasing of stations and livestock. This work connects people, land, and operations.

This can lead to local roles in station support, stock coordination, inspections, admin, and agency assistance. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award, including work connected to stock and station agency services.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Phones ring in LaynhapuyPapers slide in MilingimbiBusiness brokingIn Laynhapuy and Milingimbi, local businesses support ...
16/02/2026

Phones ring in Laynhapuy
Papers slide in Milingimbi
Business broking

In Laynhapuy and Milingimbi, local businesses support daily life — from services to supply and community operations. These businesses change over time, with owners stepping in or out, and responsibility passing between people and groups.

When businesses are bought, sold, or handed over, there is work involved in gathering information, preparing documents, talking with owners, and coordinating the process. This work helps make sure changes happen clearly and fairly.

This can create local roles in admin support, business coordination, record-keeping, and client assistance. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award, including work connected to business broking.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Derby, Wunaamin homesReal estate agency workGates open, keys in handIn Derby, Wunaamin, and Miliwundi, homes and buildin...
14/02/2026

Derby, Wunaamin homes
Real estate agency work
Gates open, keys in hand

In Derby, Wunaamin, and Miliwundi, homes and buildings are spread across town areas, stations, and community land. Properties change hands, get leased, checked on, and looked after. People need someone local who knows the place and can manage these movements.

Because properties are being rented, sold, and maintained, there is ongoing work in showing homes, handling enquiries, preparing paperwork, coordinating access, and keeping records up to date. This work supports both residents and property owners.

This can create local roles in property admin, inspections, leasing support, and agency assistance. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award and form part of real estate agency work in the West Kimberley.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Footfall in light and shadein Warmun and KalumburuCollective title managementIn Warmun and Kalumburu, land and buildings...
09/02/2026

Footfall in light and shade
in Warmun and Kalumburu
Collective title management

In Warmun and Kalumburu, land and buildings are shared. People use the same paths, spaces, and facilities every day. These shared areas need to be kept usable and organised so daily life can run smoothly.

Because these places are shared, there is regular work involved in keeping records, organising access, checking shared buildings, and helping coordinate how land and facilities are used.

This kind of work can lead to local roles in admin, coordination, inspections, and support work. These roles can sit under the Real Estate Award, including work connected to collective and community title management.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Australia’s climate enables highly efficient salt production, but the work takes place in open, weather-exposed conditio...
16/01/2026

Australia’s climate enables highly efficient salt production, but the work takes place in open, weather-exposed conditions shaped by heat, wind, and long daylight hours. The salt industry award sets fair standards for workers whose physical labour keeps an industry running that supports food supply, clean water, healthcare, and public safety nationwide.

The salt industry award covers the producing, gathering, extracting, harvesting, storing, distributing, packaging, manufacturing, treating, refining, brine handling, processing, transporting, shipping and conveying of salt, and incidental related work. It also covers the servicing, maintaining, or repairing of plant, equipment, and camp facilities used in these activities. It includes:

✅ Salt industry services employees
Employees performing general support work such as labouring, assisting crews, operating plant, maintaining facilities, and carrying out workshop, warehouse, laboratory, catering, cleaning, or security tasks.

✅ Salt industry production and haulage employees
Employees engaged in salt production, operating plant and mobile equipment, and handling, transporting, loading, and shipping salt.

✅ Salt industry processing employees
Employees operating and adjusting salt processing and refining equipment, including control panels and required permits.

✅ Salt industry maintenance trades employees
Trade-qualified employees responsible for maintaining and repairing plant, equipment, and facilities.

From sun and seawater to storage and shipment, salt production depends on weather-exposed labour and tightly coordinated operations. It is sustained by workers carrying out physically demanding work to keep an essential material moving through every stage.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

Keeping poultry products on shelves takes continuous work. In an industry where disease risk can disrupt food and health...
14/01/2026

Keeping poultry products on shelves takes continuous work. In an industry where disease risk can disrupt food and health at once, award compliance supports the people keeping that work steady and safe. The poultry farming and processing awards cover the full production chain, from on-farm activities through to processing and distribution.

The poultry farming stream in the Pastoral Award covers the following work classifications:

✅ Poultry Farm Worker Level 1:
General hands; training for any task; collecting and grading eggs; less than 6 months’ experience.

✅ Poultry Farm Worker Level 2:
Farm and hatchery duties; egg collection and grading; shed and litter care; maintaining records; culling flocks; waste removal; operating farm plant and equipment; mixing poultry food; hatchery work.

✅ Poultry Farm Worker Level 3:
Substantial handling of poultry for at least 6 months; farm maintenance work; pipefitting and tack welding; poultry and egg transport; litter and sawdust removal; front-end loader operation.

✅ Poultry Farm Worker Level 4:
Authorised testing; certified rural trades work; qualified tradespersons with approved rural industry training.

The Poultry Processing Award covers the following work classifications:

✅ Process Employee Level 1:
Induction training; direct supervision

✅ Process Employee Level 2:
Safe duties; packing, hygiene, product handling

✅ Process Employee Level 3:
Processing and cut-up operations

✅ Process Employee Level 4:
Labelling, recording, live bird and despatch handling

✅ Process Employee Level 5:
Skilled de-boning, grading, licensed equipment operation

✅ Process Employee Level 6:
Skilled in all the duties of all levels of Process Employee; accredited to train other employees; Substantive training of other employees

From farm to table, poultry production involves continuous handling of live birds, strict hygiene controls, and time-critical processing. It is sustained by workers managing animals, risk, and routine at the same time.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

The conversion of raw cane into sugar depends on skilled labour carried out day after day. It is human effort that moves...
08/01/2026

The conversion of raw cane into sugar depends on skilled labour carried out day after day. It is human effort that moves this process from field to finished product for household and commercial use. Award compliance exists to support the people who make this work possible.

The sugar industry award covers employers throughout Australia in the sugar industry and their employees who are covered by the classifications in this award. The work includes:

✅ Field sector
all sugar cane farming operations including the operations of contractors performing general farm work, cane harvesting and haul out work and farm management; cane testing; and pest, disease control, advisory and research operations of Cane Protection and Productivity Boards and Sugar Research Australia Limited;

✅ Milling sector
sugar milling including the following operations of the sugar miller: operations of transporting and processing cane including cane railway construction, maintenance, repair and operation; factory maintenance, repair and operation; raw sugar refining at a sugar mill; by-product manufacture and processing at a sugar mill; and packaging operations performed at a sugar mill;

✅ Refinery sector
refining raw sugar at sugar refineries and those refineries’ own packaging and storage operations;

✅ Distillery sector
distilling operations of sugar by-products for industrial purposes and packaging work in a distilling operation directly linked to a sugar mill;

✅ Bulk terminal operations
bulk (packed or loose) receival, storage, outloading and ship loading at the industry’s bulk terminals, including handling incidental commodities or material; and

✅ the generation and/or transmission of power and/or steam that is ancillary or incidental to the employer’s activities

Sugar production gives permanence to a crop, converting fresh cane into a stable product used across everyday food manufacturing. Paying workers correctly under awards helps protect that outcome.

(Visual reference sourced from Austockphoto)

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