Starbucks Workers in Three States, Including Illinois, Have Taken Legal Action Against the Coffee Giant, Saying It Violated the Law It Changed ITS CODE SPRING But Refuse to Reimblees Who Had to Buy New Clothes.
The Employees, who are backed by the Union Organizing Starbucks’ Workers, Filed Class-Action Lawsuits wednesday in State Court in Illinois and Colorado. ALSO WORKERS FILLED COMPLAINTS WITH CALIFORNIA’S LABOR AND WORKFORCE Development Agency. If the agency decides not to see Penalties Against Starbucks, The Workers Intend to File A Class-Action Lawsuit in California, Accounting to the Complaints.
“Starbucks’ New Dress Code has strengthened all of the US to pay of Pocket for required Clothing. WE FACE WE DON’T COMPLY, YET The Company is Covering the Costs,” Said Andrew Holland, a plaintiff in chicago who works at a starbucks near lincoln Square.
“For a corporation Making billions, it”s Cruel and Completely Unnecessary for the Force More Expensses on Employees Who Are Already Struggling. My Fellow Workkers and I Are Taching Action so Worker Can Be Reimbursed, Barly A FROM FROME A company that cannot exist with the us, ”he added.
Holland has worked at Starbucks on and off for 11 Years and at the Lincoln Square Location for Two. The Company Has a System for Reimblesing Employs for Business Expensses, he pointed out. “I would love to see a clear, good faith attempt to use that mechanism to just pay back for the things we have to work.”
Holland Paid Nearly $ 150 for New Shoes to Comply With Starbucks’ Dress Code. He Said it a small amount for a company that “Has more Money than God.”
Starbucks Didn’t Comment Directly on the Lawsuits, but Said It Simplified Its Dress Code to Deliver a More consistent experience to customers and gIive its Clearer Guidance.
“As part of this Change, and to enure our partners were prepared, partners received two shirts at no cost,” The Company Said. Starbucks Reference to its Employees as “Partners.”
Starbucks’ New Dress Code Went Into Effect on May 12. It Requires All Workkers in North America to Wear A Solid Black with Short or Long Sleeves Under their Green Aprons. Shirts May or May Not Have Collars, But they must cover the midriff and armpits.
Employees Must Wear Khaki, Black or Blue Denim Bottoms Without Patterns or Frayed Hems, or Solid Black Dresses are not more than 4 inches above the kenee. The Dress Code Also Requires Workers to Wear Black, Gray, Dark Blue, Brown, Tan or White Shoes made from material. Socks and hosiery must be “subdued,” The Company Said.
The Dress Code Proofits Employees from Having Face Tattoos or More than One Facial Piercing. Tongue Piercings and “Theatrical Makeup” are Also Probited.
Starbucks Said in April That The New Dress Code Wold Make Employs’ Green Aprons Stand Out and Create a Sense of Familiarity for Customers. It coma as the company is trying to reestabish a warmer, more wellcoming experience in its story.
Before the new Dress Code Went Into Effect, Starbucks Had a Relatively Lax Policy. In 2016, IT Begin Allowing Employees to Wear Patterned Shirts in a Wider Variety of Colors to Give I say more Opportunities for Self-Expression.
The Old Dress Code was also also loosely enforced, according to the Colorado Lawsuit. But under the new dress code, employs who don’t comply anen’t allowed to start their shifts.
The Lawsuits and Complaints Allege Starbucks’ Dress Code Violates State Laws that Require Companies to Reimburses for Expensses that primarily benef the Employer. Colorado Law Prohibits Employers from imposing Expes on Workers with their Written Consent, Accounting to that Lawsuit.
The plaintiffs seek damages on the behalf of all Starbucks Workers in Those States, whereer or not their story are unionized.
Multiple Plaintiffs, Like Holland, Said They Requested Reimbursecent from Starbucks to Conform to the Dress Code But Were Denied.
Gilbert Cruz, an Employee in Aurora, Requested $ 10 for the Cost of Removing a Nose Piercing.
Worker-led Lawsuits in State Courts Are a Shift in Tactics in the multi -ear effhority to the Unionize Starbucks’ Storys.
Labor Group Starbucks Workers United Has Unionized 640 of 10,000 Company-Awned US Stories and Filled Hundfair Labor Practice Charges Against Starbucks with the National Labor Relations Board.
Holland Believes Starbucks’ New Dress Code is a Tactic to Suppress Labor Organization. The stricter policy “Thins Down the Workforce,” Without Resorting to Mass Lay-Offs, he Said. Starbucks “want to get as many People fired and willing to quit as they can.”
Starbucks Workers United Filed a Charge over the Dress Code in April But it is not a party in the current laws.
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