Starbucks, EEOC Land Deal Over Bias in Worker Promotions (1)

Starbucks Corp. settled EEOC allegations of race and national origin bias in worker promotions, the coffee purveyor said in an assessment it commissioned, which was made public on Wednesday.

Starbucks and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission resolved the allegations through a “voluntary conciliation process,” according to the report.

The workplace civil rights agency based its discrimination allegations on Starbucks’ workforce data from 2007 to 2011, which “showed minority retail partners in the United States received fewer promotions than statistically expected,” according to the intra-company study.

“While Starbucks’ own statistical analysis of the Company’s promotion data did not reveal ...