Rebecca Pezzutti is the Legal Practice Director at IRiQ Law.
rebecca.pezzutti@iriqlaw.com.au | 07 3225 3707

Rebecca leads the firm’s workplace, industrial relations and safety practice and partners with clients to deliver legal outcomes that make sense and add value.

Rebecca’s employment and safety practice covers strategic, complex and sensitive workplace issues, including complex employee relations case management, investigations and disputes. Rebecca is an experienced advocate in the Fair Work Commission, Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, Federal Court and other state and federal tribunals. She is routinely engaged directly by in-house legal teams to leverage their capacity and by senior and executive officers to find and navigate strategic solutions to complex workplace issues.

Rebecca has established a reputation as a strategic litigator and ‘go to’ advisor around the effective management and resolution of human rights, discrimination, bullying and harassment issues in the workforce. She is also a sought-after speaker and facilitator of workplace training for leaders and managers.

In the area of work health and safety, Rebecca’s advice is often sought in response to safety incidents and investigations. She offers valuable and strategic guidance to individuals and organisations in response to regulator action, most commonly in the form of responding to improvement notices, prohibition notices and prosecutions.

Rebecca values collegiate relationships and has been endorsed by her peers in the legal profession by being elected to the Queensland Law Society Council for two consecutive terms in the 2019 and 2021 QLS elections. Rebecca has also served the profession as a member of the QLS Industrial Law Committee, the QLS Ethics Committee and as a District Law Association President for two terms in 2018 and 2019.

Rebecca obtained a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) at the University of Technology Sydney in 2006, and a Masters of Labour Law and Relations at the University of Sydney in 2022.

Joanna Minchinton is the Head of Legal and Consulting at IRiQ Law.
joanna.minchinton@iriqlaw.com.au | 07 3225 3706

Joanna is a Solicitor admitted in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. A seasoned business management professional with extensive experience working in key employment relations focused leadership positions, Joanna’s strengths lie in her with the ability operate decisively and effectively.

Joanna is a recognised workplace relations expert, having been awarded life membership of both the:

• Industrial Relations Society of Queensland (2019); and
• Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (2021)

in recognition of her service to the field.

In her role with IRiQ Law, Joanna supports clients with their employment relations needs. Her understanding of business and its multi-faceted employment considerations has been cemented over her career where she has managed the workplace function at other business associations including Business Chamber Queensland, the QHA, and the Australian Medical Association (both in the Brisbane and Sydney offices).

Joanna is an experienced advocate in jurisdictions including the Fair Work Commission, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, and the Queensland Human Rights Commission, and is an expert business trainer having delivered educational programs on a range of employment and workforce topics, including sessions delivered in Istanbul and Beijing.

In addition, Joanna is a regular guest lecturer to employment relations students at Griffith University, and is a member on the University’s ER/HR Advisory Board.

Joanna’s qualifications include:

• Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice,
• Bachelor of Laws,
• MBA,
• Professional Diploma of HR,
• Graduate Diploma of Employment Law; and
• Bachelor of Commerce.

Joseph Catanzariti AM is a Consultant Mediator at IRiQ Law.
joseph.catanzariti@iriqlaw.com.au| 0418545 060

Joseph Catanzariti AM, is a mediator and strategic advisor who brings over 40 years of practical legal experience in commercial, industrial and employment law to his mediation practice.

Joseph has a passion for alternative dispute resolution, describing it as part of his DNA. He is an enthusiastic advocate for the benefits to individuals and parties of choosing mediation as an alternative to litigation, and invests his time, energy and considerable expertise to assisting parties to achieve mediated outcomes that are meaningful for parties.

His perspective on mediation is well informed by his experience as Vice President of the Fair Work Commission between 4 June 2013 and 3 June 2024, and his experience as a solicitor in private practice, where, prior to his appointment to the Fair Work Commission, Joseph was a senior partner and practice lead of the Workplace Relations, Employment and Safety Group of a leading Australian law firm.

Outside of his mediation practice, Joseph is:

• an Adjunct Professor in Faculty of Law & Justice at University of New South Wales and Adjunct Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business at Sydney University.
• Chair of the College of Law, Board Member of College of Law New Zealand & Board Member of College of Law of Legal Practice (UK).
• A member of the Advisory Board of Syncing Minds Partners LP. 
• Co-author of Workplace Bullying published by LexisNexis.

Joseph was awarded Lifetime Recognition, Industrial Relations Society of Australia / Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association 2011, Lifetime Membership of Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales 2015.

Joseph was awarded in 2016 a member in the Order of Australia AM “for significant service to the law, to legal education, to labour and employment relations, and to professional legal bodies.”