Workplace Relations Adviser (ANZSCO 223113)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Workplace Relations Adviser on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Workplace Relations Adviser comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS's suitable-occupations list for Workplace Relations Adviser names Industrial Relations Officer, Trade Union Official and Union Organiser — work centred on collective bargaining, award interpretation and union-employer relations rather than day-to-day HR administration. The code's own page excludes Human Resource Adviser and Recruitment Consultant by name, completing the closed triangle those two codes also state from their own side. It sits on ROL and CSOL, reaching employer sponsorship and nomination visas but not state nomination, the same reach as Human Resource Adviser and one narrower than Recruitment Consultant.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap here runs in both directions. Someone whose real work is generalist HR — policy, onboarding, performance management — will not have that evidence accepted under this code even if their employer called the role "workplace relations." Equally, someone doing genuine industrial relations or union-facing work who nominates Human Resource Adviser out of habit, because it sounds like the more standard title, is nominating the wrong one of three codes VETASSESS treats as mutually exclusive by its own stated rule.

An honest read on this pathway

This is a narrow, well-defined code for a specific kind of work, and its narrowness is a feature rather than a flaw: an applicant whose employment history genuinely matches industrial relations or union organising has clean evidence to build from. The visa reach matches Human Resource Adviser exactly — no state nomination — so there is no visa-shopping reason to pick this code over its sibling; the choice should be driven entirely by which occupation the actual employment history matches.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Workplace Relations Adviser is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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