Posted on 02/07/2017 5:00:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Starbucks will offer legal advice to its employees and their family members who are immigrants affected by Donald Trump's travel ban.
"Our partners (employees) and their families have questions about travel and immigration status, so we wanted to provide them with a newly developed Immigration Advisory Program to meet their needs," said Starbucks spokesperson Reggie Borges in an email.
Trump's executive order bans the entry of immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries. Starbucks launched its new advisory program on Monday and is offering the service to full-time and part-time employees alike.
The coffee giant is working with the immigration branch of Ernst & Young to offer an advisory team that employees and their families can reach out to with "questions about immigration, travel restrictions, or how the executive order and any related actions might otherwise impact you," as the company said in a memo to employees, according to ABC News.
The company has already vowed to hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a measure that actually drew the ire of Trump supporters who shortly after enlisted the #BoycottStarbucks hashtag.
But this new effort is tackling the needs of people who are already affected. And it seems that Starbucks has been trying to assist employees right from the start, as Howard Schultz explained in a memo in the immediate wake of the ban.
"I can assure you that our Partner Resources team has been in direct contact with the partners who are impacted by this immigration ban, and we are doing everything possible to support and help them to navigate through this confusing period," Schultz wrote in a memo that said the American Dream was being "called into question."
The company's so-called Global Mobility and Immigration team is expected to keep careful track of what happens with the immigration ban and what help is available to those affected.
"This team, supported by legal counsel, will stay on top of all the latest developments and will continue to be available as a resource for the most up-to-date and accurate information available," the company wrote in the memo.
Starbucks are becoming terror dens.
Never went to Starbucks....never will.
Liberals overplaying their hand again.People can get a cup of coffee anywhere.
Whoa dude!
Is Starbucks proposing to expend corporate funds to assist employees who are breaking Federal immigration laws?
Is that tax deductible?
Ernst and Young is big on supporting LGBT and is #13 (and #51?) largest HB1 visas employers.
the boss guy at Star*ucks has NO RIGHT TO BE mis-using shareholder assets, including his time on the job, promoting his weirdo politics
the shareholders need to file a bigtime lawsuit
also, the boss guy is driving away half the firm’s potential customers by the extremism of his politics, so far on the far far far far far leftist side of things as to reallly ALIENATE and P*SS OFF at least half of USA
he’s hurting the Star*ucks company a lot this way!
he should be improving his crummy, tasteless product instead!!!!
Sure they’re bustin down the door.
If any conservatives or even republicans still give money to that crap of a business then shame on you.
I really like some of Starbucks’ items (cappuccinos, chai latte, fraps & those little cake pops for my grandkids). I even had their “gold card” for a while.
Have about 10 bucks on a gift card sitting in my purse right now ... not gonna use it ... the closest one is in the same shopping center as a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Wawa is right across the street. Sure .. they don’t have the drive-thru, but I’d rather park and walk then give Starbucks another dime!
I’m a conservative in a suburb of Fort Worth. There are ALL KINDS of Starbucks within 10 miles of my home. Not all conservatives live in a compound in Idaho or Mississippi.
You’d be surprised. I live in a conservative military town of about 33,000; we got a Starbucks two or three years ago. Our neighboring towns (one bigger; one smaller) have several Starbucks between them.
Unfortunately, that chain is virtually everywhere.
84lumber ceo is already backtracking about that ad.
I hope you’re kidding-——they are EVERYPLACE,including hundreds of college campuses.
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