Catholic diocese discriminated against Ellsworth employee, commission finds

Catholic diocese discriminated against Ellsworth employee, commission finds

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland discriminated against an employee in its Ellsworth parish when a priest told her she was getting too old for her job, according to the Maine Human Rights Commission. The commission voted 4-0 this week in finding that Monica Giordano, who was 72 years old when she was disciplined and then terminated by the diocese in 2023, had reasonable grounds to file an age discrimination complaint against her former empl…