$100 Million Tip for Starbucks Baristas

March 30, 2008

A California judge ruled that Starbucks must pay its California baristas $86 million, plus interest, for violating of the state’s tip-pooling law by using some of the employees’ tips, received from tip jars, to pay shift supervisors.

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