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: Legal Pad | LAStarbucks to appeal $100 million California ruling, but more lawsuits coming
By Jason Siegel
The chair of Starbucks told it's employees it won't pay the $100 million ruling against it by San Diego Superior Court and that it's going to appeal.
But that hasn't stopped other states from filing suits against the company over it practice of having baristas share tips with shift supervisors.
Starbuck's chair and chief executive Howard Schultz told workers that last week's ruling by San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett was "contrary to the law...fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason," the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
Cowett ruled that Starbucks' was breaking California law by forcing baristas to share tips with shift supervisors.
The company has no intention of ending the practice and is seeking an injunction, a Starbucks spokesperson told the Seattle P-I.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).
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