Here’s one you don’t see every day, Save Jerseyans…
Earlier this week, a New Jersey federal jury awarded $600,000 in compensatory damages and another whopping $25 million in punitive damages payable by the coffee chain giant Starbucks for having discriminated against a former company regional manager.
How exactly?
From the Morning Call:
“In April 2018, a Philadelphia store manager called police on two Black men who were sitting in the coffee shop without ordering anything. Phillips, then regional manager of operations in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and elsewhere, had nothing to do with the arrests but lost her job less than a month later after objecting to another white manager being placed on leave amid the uproar, according to her lawsuit.
The company’s rationale for suspending the district manager, who was not responsible for the store where the arrests took place, was an allegation that Black store managers were being paid less than white managers, according to the lawsuit. Phillips said that argument made no sense since district managers have no input on employee salaries.”
So you can chalk this one up as a win against wokeness!
Maybe Jack Smith shouldn’t be too sure of a better result in a Garden State courtroom?
