Boston, MA – Three immigrant children filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Raw Seafoods, Inc. for allegedly forcing teens to work through overnight shifts in its seafood processing plant in Fall River, MA., according to Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School and Justice at Work.
Raw Seafoods is a leading wholesale seafood supplier in New England and is accused of profiting off children by willfully employing then-fifteen-year-old Plaintiffs who were identified by initials.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, alleges that Raw Seafoods, its owners and management, violated the children’s rights under state and federal labor law, federal civil rights law, and international human rights law by extracted child labor from the Plaintiffs and subjected them to coercion, psychological abuse, hazardous workplace conditions, and a discriminatory work environment…