Former Olympia Sports worker files discrimination suit

Former Olympia Sports worker files discrimination suit
Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal (Maine)
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, Staff Writer
Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 11:25 pm

AUBURN — A former worker at an Olympia Sports store in Lewiston is suing the company and his former supervisor, claiming she discriminated against him and harassed him because he is an atheist.

Jason Rines of Gardiner filed a complaint this week in Androscoggin County Superior Court claiming that he was forced to quit his job in January 2013, more than four years after he started.

For the first four years, Rines had no issues with two successive supervising managers, according to his complaint. They gave him positive job performance evaluations and he received periodic bonuses for reaching monthly sales quotas.

Lori Brooks of Lisbon Falls was hired as supervising manager of the Lewiston store in October 2012. A month later, “Brooks began to interject her religious beliefs into conversations with (Rines) during work hours at the store,” according to his complaint. “Brooks made it clear to (Rines) that she was devoutly Christian and that her religion plays a paramount role in her life,” court papers said...

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