{"id":726,"date":"2018-04-03T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=726"},"modified":"2020-04-05T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T08:46:04","slug":"starbucks-acts-pay-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/starbucks-acts-pay-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"STARBUCKS ACTS ON PAY EQUITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has reached 100 per cent pay equity for partners of all genders and races undertaking similar work across the US, the company has announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly 10 years ago we began serious work to ensure women and men \u2013 of all ethnicities and races \u2013 are compensated fairly at Starbucks,\u201d said Lucy Helm, chief partner officer at Starbucks. \u201cThis accomplishment is the result of years of work and commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helm said the company will now work \u201cwith speed\u201d toward closing the gender pay gap for all partners in company-operated markets worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, women are paid an average of 80 cents on the dollar compared to men. The gender pay gap is even greater in retail, where women make an average of 70 cents on the dollar compared to men, said Helm.<\/p>\n<p>It could take until 2119 for the US to close the gender pay gap, and even longer worldwide, according to the American Association of University Women.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to speed things up, <a href=\"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?s=starbucks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starbucks<\/a> is publicly\u00a0sharing the principles and tools\u00a0the company used to reach this goal in the US\u00a0in the hope that other employers will join in working toward pay equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has reached 100 per cent pay equity for partners of all genders and races undertaking similar work across the US, the company has announced. \u201cRoughly 10 years ago we began serious work to ensure women and men \u2013 of all ethnicities and races \u2013 are compensated fairly at Starbucks,\u201d said Lucy Helm, chief partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}