January 20, 2012
Starbucks Corp. has agreed it owes about $7.5 million for allowing its shift supervisors in Massachusetts to share in employee tip pools that should have only been divvied up among the company's coffeemaking baristas, attorneys for the class of baristas said Friday.
December 02, 2011
A class of Starbucks Corp. baristas who successfully sued the coffee giant over a policy that allowed shift supervisors to share in tip pools asked a Massachusetts federal judge Thursday for more than $32 million in damages.
March 21, 2011
A federal judge ruled Friday that Starbucks Corp. violated Massachusetts law by allowing shift supervisors to share in tip pools with baristas, handing a win to a class of employees who challenged the company's policy.
February 11, 2011
A magistrate judge has recommended certifying a class of Starbucks Corp. baristas in Massachusetts and granting summary judgment on a state wage law claim challenging the inclusion of shift supervisors in the baristas' tip pool.
October 07, 2009
New plaintiffs have been added to a putative class action brought by Starbucks Corp. baristas who accuse the coffee chain of wrongly sharing tips between servers and managers, building momentum for the case a month after the California Supreme Court declined to weigh in on an appellate reversal of a judge's $105 million award to 120,000 current and former employees in a different suit.