Fresh Direct Suit Alleges Race Bias in Worker Screening (1)

Fresh Direct is accused in a new class lawsuit of categorically excluding from employment workers with certain types of criminal records, in violation of New York laws barring race and other discrimination.

New York state and city human rights laws both require employers to consider eight factors laid out in the state’s corrections law before refusing to hire a job applicant or firing a worker with a past criminal conviction, Vidal Soler and Corey Stewart say in the suit filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan.

Fresh Direct LLC and Fresh Direct Holdings Inc. fail to consider all of those ...