Starbucks Prepares to Settle Class Actions Over Flawed Background Checks
New filings indicate two FCRA cases are being combined in Georgia in preparation for a settlement.
April 23, 2019 at 12:17 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Daily Report
Two pending class action lawsuits accusing Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using flawed background reports to reject job applicants are being combined in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in preparation for a settlement.
According to pleadings in the first action, which was filed in December 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the putative class numbers an estimated 8,000 similarly situated job candidates who were the subject of adverse background reports supplied by Accurate Background, the company accused of providing the inaccurate reports.
According to its filings, Starbucks employs about 186,000 people—or “partners”—across the United states and hires roughly 109,000 new partners every year.
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