In a complaint filed in St. Louis, Missouri accused Starbucks of tying executive pay to the company's achieving racial and gender-based hiring quotas.

A new lawsuit filed by Missouri's attorney general alleges that Starbucks is unlawfully relying on "race-and-sex-based hiring practices."

Starbucks was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. state of Missouri, which accused the coffee chain of using a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to illegally discriminate on the basis of race.