Meal kit company HelloFresh and three staffing agencies are facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that hundreds of workers at a Newark facility were physically assaulted by supervisors, threatened with deportation, denied bathroom breaks, subjected to harassment and discrimination, and laid off shortly before new state protections for temporary workers took effect.
The lawsuit names HelloFresh and staffing firms Action Staffing Group, On Target Staffing LLC and ProStaff Solutions Inc., which supplied temporary workers to the Newark facility. The amended complaint alleges the companies acted as joint employers and jointly controlled working conditions at the site…