James Uthmeier: More than 900 Starbucks locations in Florida engaged in hiring discrimination

[Zorro]

The lawsuit says DEI hiring practices by coffee giant excluded nonminority workers.

Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit against giant coffee shop retailer Starbucks, claiming the company is engaging in “race-based quotas” in hiring employees.

The civil legal action against Starbucks was filed in the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Highlands County. The 21-page lawsuit doesn’t single out one particular incident or an individual. But it points to a series of practices Starbucks has engaged in the past five years while taking part “in a pattern or practice of discrimination.”

The filing said Starbucks established racial quotas for hiring, paid employees different wages because of their race, tied compensation to race-based mentorship programs “only to a person of certain favored races,” and excluded “people of disfavored races” from many of those programs.

While many of the Starbucks diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs were aimed at including underrepresented minorities, the lawsuit said that still excludes others. “All racial discrimination, even for supposedly benign purposes, is invidious and unlawful,” according to the court document.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/769332-james-uthmeier-more-than-900-starbucks-locations-in-florida-engaged-in-hiring-discrimination/

[Ocelot II]

1. And guess which race Starbucks is accused of discriminating against?

Damn them, I guess they must have hired some Black and Latino people.