Starbucks to pay $25m for firing a white woman for being white.
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How did she prove that it was because she was white? Isn’t this where a company cooks up some bullshit underperformance metric to justify the termination?
Reading into it, she wasn't the store manager, she was a regional manager. They apparently jumped up the ladder from the person directly responsible for the "incident," who was black. There must not have been any issues with her work that she could prove her firing was otherwise meritless.
Pennsylvania is a right to work state (are there any that aren’t?) so the “your employer can fire you for any reason or no reason at all” thing applies. Unless there’s a union involved. But Starbucks has been hesitant to work with unions and back then I’m pretty sure they didn’t allow them at all.
Shit, TheImp might be right. She got a pussy pass. That’s normally an unwinnable fight.
Quick search tells me PA does not have right to work. Nor does New Jersey, where this court case was held (her region covered places in both states).
Bullshit. I worked in New Jersey. It’s a right to work state.
Those aren't the same thing. An employer who can fire you for no reason still can't fire you for any reason - though that would shift the burden of proof from the employer to the employee.
You don't have to prove it, the company has to disprove it once you have made a prima facie case.