A man who filed a federal discrimination lawsuit over racist behavior he endured at a Big 5 store in Oak Harbor has settled the case for $165,000.

In addition, the company agreed to give employees a wide range of anti-discrimination training.

The state Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, and former Big 5 employee Robert Sanders filed the lawsuit last year. It claimed that Sanders’ supervisors at the Oak Harbor store subjected him to discrimination based on the fact that he is African American and retaliated against him when he opposed the discriminatory hostile work environment.

Under the settlement, Sanders will receive $33,000 for lost wages, $62,000 for attorney’s fees to go to the Thomas Law Group and $75,000 in general damages.

In addition, the company agreed to review and revise its current policies regarding discrimination and to provide training to employees, especially managers, on how to keep the workplace free of harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

The resolution was the result of mediation, court documents state.

The complaint alleges that assistant managers threatened to kill Sanders with box cutters and to lynch him. A management trainee told him his “kind” wasn’t allowed in the stock room and that he would end up dead in a river, the complaint states.

In addition, the store manager subjected Sanders to “frequent, offensive and unwelcome race-based conduct,” which included referring to him as “boy” and “Shadow,” according to the complaint.

The managers retaliated against Sanders when he complained about his treatment by denying him breaks, assigning him less desirable work and continuing to call him racist names in front of other employees, the complaint indicates.