Rite Aid Accused of Age Bias by Fired Pharmacist

A pharmacy manager in his mid-50s says he was improperly fired from Rite Aid after a bizarre meeting full of strange questions and sudden subject changes.

Rite Aid last year won an appeal of a $2.6 million jury verdict to a pharmacist with a needle phobia.

The new complaint was filed Aug. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Mark Ferreira, in his mid-50s during the events in the fall of 2017, says his mentioning to HR performance issues he was having with a younger employee, led to a sit-down meeting during which he was subjected ...