March 22nd (Starbucks) Thursday a Superior Court Judge ordered Starbucks to pay its California baristas over $100 million back in tips that Starbucks had paid to shift supervisors. Baristas was entitled to $86 million in back tips plus interest, as well as setting this San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett also issued an injunction preventing Starbucks' shift supervisors from sharing in future tips. There was a state law broke in which the managers and supervisors were sharing in employee tips.
Of course the Starbucks Corporation spokes woman, Valerie O'Neil, said the company planned an immediat appeal, calling the ruling "fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason."
The lawsuit was filed in October 2004, it finally gained ground in 2006, and included 100,000 former and current baristas in Starbuck's California stores. The corporation earned more than $672 million on revenue of $9.4 billion during its fiscal 2007, which ended September 30. The coffee company also took issue with the brevity of Cowett's ruling, saying the judge failed to notice the unfairness to shift supervisors
Starbucks needs to start to treat their baristas with the respect they deserve. Not paying them the full tips they are earning is very wrong. They have to do all the dirty work of the store and don't get all what they have earned, that is cruel. The supervisors need to start showing the respect to these hard workers, if they don't they should be let go and investigated even harder. Starbucks will start to struggle financially if they do not fix this problem soon.
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