The Maine Human Rights Commission this week sided with a former employee who has accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland of age discrimination.

The commission voted unanimously that there are reasonable grounds to believe the diocese discriminated against Reverend Monica Giordano, who worked for nearly 20 years as an administrative assistant in the Ellsworth parish. In 2023 Giordano was disciplined and then terminated by the diocese. She was 72 at the time.

Kristin Aiello represented Giordano before the commission.

"My client was a qualified long-standing employee, who was exercising her right, as a 72-year-old employee in the workplace, to exist without being harassed, demeaned and threatened because of her age," Aiello said.

Aiello told the commission that Giordano's superviso

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