Dear Amy: I am a manager at my job. Last June, a new employee transferred from a different unit. She was very upset the first couple of days. She also had a fear of reporting to her new supervisor ...

The manager, who is not named as a defendant, disliked the supervisor “because of her Latina ethnicity and female gender,” the lawsuit alleged.

Starbucks has been ordered to pay more than $25 million to a former regional manager who sued the company for wrongful termination, saying she was fired because she is white.