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I'm not sure how the judge thinks this is going to happen. How do you find "as many as 1000,000 former and current baristas?" If there are 500,000 current baristas in employment, the cost and logistics of finding the former 500,000 will be phenomenal. Supreme Court here we come...
A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered Starbucks to pay its California baristas more than $100 million in back tips that the coffee chain paid to shift supervisors.
Saying baristas were entitled to $86 million in back tips plus interest, San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett also issued an injunction preventing Starbucks' shift supervisors from sharing in future tips.
Cowett said the practice was a violation of a state law prohibiting managers and supervisors from sharing in employee tips.
Starbucks Corp. spokeswoman Valerie O'Neil said the company planned an immediate appeal, calling the ruling "fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason."
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