Starbucks Ordered to Pay $25 Million to Manager Who Claims She Was Fired Because She's White
Starbucks logo.Photo:Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty A jury has awarded a former Starbucks regional manager $25.6 million after she claimed she was wrongfully terminated following the arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia store in 2018. Shannon Phillips was awarded $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages this week, as a New Jersey jury determined race was a factor in her termination, per Phillips' representationConsole Mattiacci Law,which shared an article from Law360 to Facebook....