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Missouri accused Starbucks of tie the executive payment to the company that achieves racial and gender hiring quotas.
The American state of Missouri has sued Starbucks, accusing the coffee chain to use a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to systematically discriminate according to race, gender and sexual orientation.
In a complaint filed in the Federal Court of St Louis on Tuesday, Missouri accused Starbucks of linking the executive payment to the company that achieves racial and gender hiring quotas.
He also accused Starbucks of highlighting preferred groups for additional training and perspectives for labor advancement, and using a quota system to ensure that his own board of directors had a variety of racial and ethnic origins.
“All this is illegal,” and violates federal and state civil rights laws, according to the complaint of the Missouri Attorney, Andrew Bailey.
Bailey, a Republican, also said that Missouri consumers pay higher prices and wait for services in Starbucks than if the Seattle -based chain would use the most qualified workers.
“We do not agree with the attorney general and these accusations are inaccurate,” Starbucks said in a statement. “We are deeply committed to creating opportunities for each of our partners (employees). Our programs and benefits are open to all and legal. “
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, also a Republican, has tried to close the policies that promote diversity, equity and inclusion inside and outside the federal government, and some companies have completed or reduced their own programs.
For example, the Wall Street Bank Goldman Sachs canceled on Tuesday a policy to make companies public only if they had two diverse members of the Board, generally defined as people of the sub -present demography.
Last week, meanwhile, Google discarded hiring objectives based on diversity, while Amazon.com eliminated a reference to the inclusion and diversity of its annual report.
Diversity policies
Tuesday’s demand challenged Starbucks policies adopted since 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, a black man, by a Minneapolis police officer caused disturbances throughout the country and led many companies to rethink labor practices.
Missouri said that the alleged support of quotas by Starbucks “should not surprise”, citing the support of the new executive president Brian Niccol to the environmental, social and governance objectives while leading the Chipotle Burritos chain.
Starbucks uses about 211,000 people in the United States and 361,000 people worldwide.
In August 2023, a federal judge in Spokane, Washington, dismissed a shareholders’ demand that challenges Starbucks diversity policies, saying that the case addressed the public policy questions better decided by legislators and companies, not the courts.
Missouri’s demand seeks to force Starbucks to end the supposed discrimination based on race, gender and national origin; Rehire and rescind the discipline against employees affected by discrimination and pay non -specified damage.
The case is Missouri ex Bailey V Starbucks Corp, District Court of the United States, Eastern District of Missouri, No. 25-00165.
