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Article

22 Feb 2013

Author:
C. Benjamin Ford, Gazette.Net [USA]

Former employee takes on Starbucks, citing age discrimination [USA]

Hobson was fired by Starbucks on grounds that she violated company policy on safety and security when she allowed a co-worker to go home early, leaving Hobson as the only employee in the store…“Ninety percent of the shift supervisors and managers are in the store alone at one point or another,” [Hobson] said…Hobson was replaced by two younger workers in their 20s...Starbucks denies Hobson was fired because of her age…“Starbucks has a long history of promoting equality, inclusion and diversity…We…have a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind in our workplace.” Hobson has filed a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights…Proving age discrimination is difficult said… [the] coordinator of Public Policy Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. “Even as written the laws typically err on the side of the employer and make it relatively easy for them to meet the burden of evidence that it wasn’t because of age, it wasn’t because of discrimination,” [he] said…