{"id":1948183,"date":"2023-06-15T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-starbucks-manager-wins-25m-lawsuit-that-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-white\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:25:50","slug":"ex-starbucks-manager-wins-25m-lawsuit-that-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-starbucks-manager-wins-25m-lawsuit-that-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Starbucks manager awarded $25M in lawsuit alleging racial discrimination."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-starbucks-manager-wins-25m-lawsuit-that-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-white%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Former Starbucks Manager Wins $25.6 Million in Lawsuit<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wax-museum-removes-trump-figure-after-visitors-kept-punching-it-in-the-face\/\" title=\"Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure After Visitors Kept Punching It In The Face\">regional manager<\/a> for Starbucks won $25.6 million after a jury agreed that she was fired for being white.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Jury Awards Compensation to Shannon Phillips<\/h3>\n<p>A jury in New Jersey awarded Shannon Phillips $600,000 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-spent-23-years-in-prison-for-a-murder-he-didnt-commit-now-hes-suing\/\" title=\"He Spent 23 Years In Prison For A Murder He Didn\u2019t Commit. Now He\u2019s Suing.\">compensatory damages<\/a> and $25 million in punitive damages on Monday after she argued that she and other employees who are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-starbucks-manager-wins-25m-lawsuit-that-claims-she-was-fired-for-being-white\/\" title=\"Former Starbucks manager awarded M in lawsuit alleging racial discrimination.\">white faced unjust discipline<\/a> from Starbucks amid the backlash after two black men were arrested in a Starbucks in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12193961\/Starbucks-manager-ran-Philly-store-two-black-men-refused-access-bathroom-gets-25M.html\">oversaw<\/a> around 100 Starbucks locations and was fired following a viral 2018 incident in a Philadelphia Starbucks that she was not present for. Two black men were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/starbucks-racism-philadelphia-manager-lawsuit-bfa9cd9a897dff402f8547f167455d10\">arrested<\/a> after they were denied access to the Starbucks restroom without buying anything and then refused to leave the store, leading to national backlash against the coffee chain. Phillips claims she was ordered to suspend a fellow white manager over unfounded complaints, and when she refused to do so she was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips&#8217;s lawsuit claimed Starbucks was working to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-starbucks-manager-awarded-25-6m-over-firing-following-arrests-of-2-black-men\/\" title=\"Ex-Starbucks manager receives .6m after being fired for arrests of 2 Black men.\">punish white employees<\/a> &#8230; in an effort to convince the community that it had properly responded to the incident.&#8221; Starbucks argued it wanted a new manager who had more skills at dealing with the crisis.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Potential Financial Impact on Starbucks<\/h3>\n<p>The jury&#8217;s siding with Phillips could cost Starbucks even more as the judge may award back pay and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-year-treasury-yields-top-3-for-first-time-since-2018\/\" title=\"10-Year Treasury Yields Top 3% for First Time Since 2018\">future pay<\/a> as well as fees for her legal team.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the 2018 incident, Starbucks also closed thousands of stores for a day to teach its employees &#8220;anti-bias&#8221; training. The charges against the two men were eventually dropped and they reached a settlement with the coffee chain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white ex-Starbucks manager, Shannon Phillips, was awarded $25.6 million by a New Jersey jury. They agreed she was wrongfully terminated due to her race. Phillips received $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages. She claimed that white employees, including herself, faced unfair disciplinary actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1948185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[28092,5299,9701,5102,4585,6020,5125,9843],"class_list":["post-1948183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-25m","tag-alleging","tag-awarded","tag-discrimination","tag-lawsuit","tag-manager","tag-racial","tag-starbucks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}