A jury found that Starbucks had violated the federal civil rights of the former regional manager. Read more at straitstimes.com.
On Monday, in a surprising twist, a federal jury in New Jersey ordered Starbucks to pay US$25.6 million to a former regional manager after determining that the company had fired her amid the fallout from the Rittenhouse Square episode because she was white.
Ms Phillips said in the suit that Starbucks, as part of its damage-control effort after the arrests, had sought to punish her and other white employees in and around Philadelphia even if they had not been involved in the events that led to the police being called. Ms Phillips said she was fired not long after balking at the order to suspend the white manager. She said that she had not been previously told that she was doing a bad job and that the only explanation she was given for the firing was that “the situation is not recoverable”.
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