Australian Influencer Nancy Cicerone: With the grow of social media around the world, social media influencing has become quite a lucrative profession. Itr not only earns you fame but also hefty sum of money. As a result, many young professionals are switching their careers to social media influencing and even generating jobs. However, an Australian-based influencer Nancy Cicerone has been accused hiring Indians and cheating them of their salary. A redditor who seemed to be an Indian accused influencer Nancy Cicerone of hiring and then firing without giving the salary. Now, the question arises who is Nancy Cicerone, and what are the accusations against her? Below is everything you need to know-
Who is Nancy Cicerone?
Nancy Cicerone calls herself an entrepreneur who is based in Australia. Going by Nancy Cicerone's Linkedin profile, she is based in Essendon North, Victoria, Australia. She is the Director of Nutritional Science & Menu Planning NC FIT & THRIVE NOW NUTRITION. From 2010 to 2017, Nancy owned Nancy's Cake Boutique. Nancy's Cake Boutique specialised in fully decorated cakes for any occassion.
In 2013, she became business owner of Little Hessian Jar. Little Hessian Jar is a handmade homewares company specialising in 100% organic soy candles. Currently, Nancy is a nutritional coach as well and the founder of NC Fit.
Nancy Cicerone;s Instagram handle has more than 20K followers and she frequently shares her glamourous photos and videos with her fans.
What are the accusations against Nancy Cicerone?
A Redditor post reads, "I'm one of the victims. This influencer who goes by @nutritionalnancy and @n.c_fit on insta is based in Australia. She hired me on Aug 21. We clearly spoke of US$250 base pay and 10% commissions on cash collected.
She agreed to pay me the base after 2 weeks trial if we go on for a longer period and I started working based on this agreement. The day I joined, she fired the other setter making me work double shifts.
I worked for her from 4.30 am to 6.30/7.30 pm Monday to Friday and although weekends were supposed to be off, I worked for her for 4-8 hours over the weekend as well. I was working 60-80 hours per week and she would dump work on me after that also. Inspite of that, her marketing agency guy told me I'm not doing enough.
When I told them it's not possible to work such long hours, she started being rude to me and pointing out mistakes in my work. When I told her to be respectful and politely showed her that she was also making the same mistakes which are human errors when you're working with such large volumes, she became even more rude.
Finally on Sept 19, she fired me saying that it's not working out for the business. During this time, I made business worth AUD 16,500 for her which she would be collecting over 8 weeks.
She owes me AUD 1650 plus USD 125 and has only paid me AUD 248 saying this is all she owes as commission for the first installment. She is not responding to my messages and has now blocked me on insta so I cannot connect with her in any way.
The day she fired me, she put up a post saying I'm the 8th person she fired and I realised that she's done the same thing with two of my friends as well.
She hires people from India and Nigeria and other third world countries, treats them like dirt, speaks rudely and fires them before payday and doesn't enter into any contracts to save herself. I have tried complaining about her to fair work ombudsman but cannot do so because of a technical error in the website which I have highlighted to them. I don't know what to do about this so I am posting it here and hoping no one else falls prey to her.
The redditor approaches labour court but went in vain
Responding to a suggestion, the redditor wrote, "I checked with the labour court they said it's not in their jurisdiction. I haven't signed a contract unfortunately. Thank you I am hoping for support from this community. I feel so cheated."
The redditor further outlined, "Hiring a lawyer and fighting the case will cost way more than the amount she has paid me. And there is no guarantee of getting the amount back as there is no formal contract, it is only my word against hers and a few random WhatsApp exchanges which she is just tweaking to suit her fraudulent intentions. Trolling her and getting her account banned is the only option for now."