{"id":33258,"date":"2025-02-13T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/missouri-sues-starbucks-claiming-systemic-discrimination-via-dei\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T19:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T19:58:43","slug":"missouri-sues-starbucks-claiming-systemic-discrimination-via-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/missouri-sues-starbucks-claiming-systemic-discrimination-via-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri sues Starbucks, claiming \u2018systemic discrimination\u2019 via DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican attorney general files suit claiming \u2013 without evidence \u2013 coffee chain\u2019s hiring policies cause higher prices<\/p>\n<p>Missouri has <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Starbucks-Complaint.pdf\">sued<\/a> Starbucks for discrimination because its workforce has \u201cbecome more female and less white\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Filed on Tuesday by the state\u2019s Republican attorney general, the lawsuit accuses the coffee chain of engaging in \u201csystemic racial, sexual, and sexual orientation discrimination\u201d through its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, including hiring quotas, advancement opportunities and board membership.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/feb\/13\/starbucks-missouri-dei-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican attorney general files suit claiming \u2013 without evidence \u2013 coffee chain\u2019s hiring policies cause higher prices Missouri has sued Starbucks for discrimination because its workforce has \u201cbecome more female and less white\u201d. Filed on Tuesday by the state\u2019s Republican attorney general, the lawsuit accuses the coffee chain of engaging in \u201csystemic racial, sexual, and &#8230; <a title=\"Missouri sues Starbucks, claiming \u2018systemic discrimination\u2019 via DEI\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/missouri-sues-starbucks-claiming-systemic-discrimination-via-dei\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Missouri sues Starbucks, claiming \u2018systemic discrimination\u2019 via DEI\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}