A recruitment firm has been ordered to pay €11,000 to a consultant who complained that she was fired and victimised over her ethnicity, reports The Journal.ie. The woman, Ishita Sanon, of Indian descent claimed that she was asked by the firm’s managing director to change her name to ‘something more Irish’. Sanon worked as a consultant for recruitment agency Bond Medical, part of Bond Personnel Group. She brought her case to the Workplace Relations Commission where she alleged that she was subjected to harassment, discrimination and victimisation in the course of her employment at the agency by way of persistent disrespectful remarks about her heritage and culture. The managing director then raised concerns about her performance which Sanon then contested. The following day she was given a termination notice. The managing director has denied the allegations. The Commission’s adjudication officer did not uphold the complaint about harassment and discrimination on the grounds of race, however the officer did find that the dismissal was an “an act of victimisation”.