Starbucks to pay $25M in racial discrimination lawsuit to ex-manager.

Starbucks has been ordered to pay $25.6m to a white ex-employee, Shannon Phillips, who was fired after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia branch in 2018. A federal jury in New Jersey found that Starbucks had violated Ms Phillips's federal civil rights, as well as a New Jersey law that prohibits discrimination based on race, awarding her $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25m in punitive damages. Phillips sued Starbucks, accusing them of wrongful termination and of unfairly punishing white employees like her in response to the arrests.