Starbucks has been ordered to pay an additional $2.7 million to a former regional manager earlier awarded $25.6 million after alleging that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018.
Phillips, then regional manager of operations in Philadelphia, southern New Jersey, and elsewhere, was not involved with arrests. However, she said she was ordered to put a white manager who also wasn’t involved on administrative leave for reasons she knew were false, 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 had no input on employee salaries.
Starbucks lawyers had alleged that Phillips was fired because the company needed stronger leadership in the aftermath of the arrests. Phillips’ lawyers, meanwhile, also want Starbucks ordered to pay $1.4 million in legal fees from 2018 through 2023.
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