The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday that Kmart Corporation will pay $120,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination suit involving a 70-year-old pharmacist at a Honolulu store.

A suit filed last year by the EEOC contended that, over the course of four years, the woman was subjected to harassment, humiliation and � when she complained � to retaliation. The EEOC said the woman eventually resigned.
According to the suit, a pharmacy manager openly said the pharmacist was �too old,� �should just retire� and was �greedy� for continuing to work at age 70.
The EEOC said the manager continued to humiliate the woman in written entries to a communication book open to the entire department. �The pharmacy is no longer your forte,� the manager wrote. Another entry read, �You need to retire from pharmacy work now.�
The EEOC said the manager also purposely scheduled her to work Sundays, knowing that she attended church regularly.
The EEOC said the woman complained to a Kmart district manager, general manager and human resources manager to no avail. The suit says Kmart then threatened her with legal action using a pretext on an unrelated matter to retaliate against her for complaining.
In settling the suit, Kmart also agreed to post a notice on the matter, hire an EEO trainer, review and revise its anti-discrimination policy, provide age-discrimination training, and ensure that performance evaluations reflect discriminatory misconduct by management.