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maggio 16, 2022 - Starbucks

Letter to Starbucks Partners: Ensuring Access to Healthcare

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n a letter to #starbucks partners, #sarakelly, acting evp, Partner Resources, shares our commitment to ensuring our partners always have access to quality healthcare – regardless of where you live or what you believe.

Partners,

Like many of you, I’m deeply concerned by the draft Supreme Court opinion related to the constitutional right to abortion that was first established by Roe v. Wade. I know this is weighing on many of you, so let me be clear up front – regardless of what the Supreme Court ends up deciding, we will always ensure our partners have access to quality healthcare. And when actions impact your access to healthcare, we will work on a way to make sure you feel supported.

Today I’m announcing that we are expanding our U.S. healthcare benefit to further protect your personal #health decisions. Regardless of where you live or what you believe, partners enrolled in #starbucks healthcare will now be offered reimbursement for eligible travel expenses when accessing abortion or gender-affirming procedures when those services are not available within 100 miles of a partner’s home. This benefit will also apply to dependents of partners enrolled in #starbucks healthcare.

Whatever healthcare choice you believe is right for you and your family, you deserve access to those services and the benefits that #starbucks provides. We offer industry-leading benefits, including many benefits that support partners in planning for their future, including:

  • Family Expansion Reimbursement programs to assist with costs associated with growing your family, like adoption, surrogacy or fertility treatments
  • Paid leave for benefits-eligible partners who welcome a new child by birth, adoption or foster
  • Health insurance options for transgender partners to include gender-affirming care
  • Health insurance options to cover preventative care and contraception
  • Free mental #health and counseling sessions through Lyra for all partners
  • And, coming soon, reimbursement for travel expenses for certain healthcare services not available in your community, as shared above.

At #starbucks, we have 240,000 U.S. partners with diverse views. That’s okay, because it’s what makes us #starbucks. My hope is that we will continue to honor and respect one another. And, together, we’ll become better listeners and learners – finding ways to support one another, as we always have. Because that’s what it means to be a partner.

Thank you to the perspectives and ideas shared by many of you, including those in our partner networks. Our Benefits team is working on the specifics and timing of our benefit expansion and we look forward to sharing more updates soon.