Starbucks is being sued because its workforce ‘has become more feminine and less white’

STREET. Louis (Gray News) – Missouri attorney filed a lawsuit against Starbucks on Tuesday, claiming that the company discriminates according to race and sex.

The demandArchive by Missouri Attorney, Andrew Bailey, alleges that Starbucks favors the hiring of women and people in color instead of hiring according to the qualifications.

“The American workforce of Starbucks was 70.9% women and 28.4% men … In other words, since 2020, Starbuck’s work has become more feminine and less white,” says page 29 of demand.

The demand has problems with several of the diversity objectives of Starbucks, including its objective of achieving “bipoc representation of at least 30 percent at all corporate levels and at least 40 percent of all retail and manufacturing roles for 2025 “

In demand, Bailey says that Starbucks “individualizes preferred groups for additional training and employment benefits.”

Specifically, he says since 2012, as part of his “Starbucks diversity mentoring program”, the coffee chain “connects Starbucks internal lawyers with junior lawyers of various origins in individual mentoring relationships.”

“Minorities and women can participate in this program. But white men are not, ”says demand.

Commentators in Bailey Facebook post About demand, they face the presentation, and many call it a waste of taxpayers’ money.

“Talk about government waste … This demand is the epitome of government waste. It is curious that you don’t care about inclusion until “white men affected,” wrote a Missourian.

“Absolutely crazy and a waste of taxpayers’ dollars,” another wrote.

But Bailey doubled his efforts.

“As a general prosecutor, I have the responsibility to protect the misurians from a company that actively involves systemic discrimination of race and sex,” Bailey said In a press release. “Racism does not take place in Missouri. We are submitting a lawsuit to stop this flagrant violation of the Missouri Human Rights Law. “

Bailey is looking for an order for Starbucks to immediately cease her “discriminatory patterns and practices.”

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