A former Starbucks regional manager who was fired after she refused to let two nonpaying black men use the restroom at her Philadelphia location was awarded over $25 million on Monday after she won her lawsuit against the coffee giant.
Shannon Phillips was awarded $25.6 million by a New Jersey federal jury after she won her lawsuit against the Seattle-based coffee giant, according to a report.The jury determined she had lost her job because she was white and awarded her $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages, the report noted.
Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were purportedly waiting for a meeting and wanted to use the location's facilities. Outrage followed, Phillips and Starbucks were hammered with accusations of racism, and thousands of locations were shut for racial sensitivity training.She alleged her firing was the product of racial bias and stated that Starbucks was punishing white employees, some of whom had no affiliation with the incident.
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