Starbucks to pay extra $2.7 million to a white former manager who won a racial discrimination lawsuit
Following a wrongful termination lawsuit concerning the 2018 arrests of two Black men at a Rittenhouse Square store she ran, Shannon Phillips received a $25.6 million payout in June. Starbucks has been compelled to compensate a former regional manager for the Philadelphia area once more. A federal judge in New Jersey has ordered the corporation to pay her an additional $2.7 million in damages after already paying $25.6 million in response to a wrongful termination case two months earlier. Repair community relations while ensuring employee and customer safety Starbucks was ordered to pay Shannon Phillips, a former 13-year employee, $2,736,755 in back pay, front pay, and tax damages on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky, according to court documents. The decision follows a federal jury’s verdict in Camden that the coffee firm had violated Phillips’ civil rights and a New Jersey statute forbidding racial discrimination. In 2019, Phillips sued Starbucks , claiming th...