They don't go round calling their black co-workers negro
And if the did they could apparently not mention it to any of their supervisors, then when their shift was over claim they were called ****** ten times, report it to the boss, he'd say it was five times, you'd only then, on his insistence, report it to the supervisor changing yet again where, when and what you were called.
Then you'd go to a tribunal, watch a cctv of the event which doesn't support any of what you said except that you could see that you were clearly annoyed and irrational even before you spoke to the 'accused', on the basis that you'd failed miserably to get that worker in trouble five minutes earlier when you rolled all over the floor as if you'd been shot by the water cooler in front of the supervisor. Then you'd be coached through what the 'accused' had said and how you must now change your story accordingly (again!) and admit that you'd instigated the argument by insulting your co-workers sister, calling him a Sudaca (known to you, as a Spanish speaker, as being a racial insult) and then threatening to punch him - instant dismissal under employment law.
It so happens that you HR deparment is having yet another Racism Awareness and Zero Tollerence campaign. The MD of your conglomerate has been making farcical comments in Swiss-in-house company magazines that co-workers who abuse each other should just shake hands and make up. Your HR department is furious, as is your own MD of the English arm of your company. Your timing is good.
A tribunal of a local solicitor who knows your boss, a manager of a small, regional branch that knows your bosses son well and has written a glowing reference on your bosses CV about how he helped save his job, and some retired admin clerk from the provinces who've never manged a market stall is then formed. All presumption of innocence of the innocence of the 'accused' is dropped in favour of a 'balance of probabilities' and 'reasonable belief' standard of evidence, as if it was a simple dispute between two conflicting parties such as a marital or property dispute - only you are not charged with anything, because you are black and the accused is not and racism and abusive behaviour in your country can only be done in one direction.
Only when the tribunal hearings are nearly over are the union defending the accused (let's not pretend it's representing in a dispute anymore) allowed to know that you reviewed the cctv with HR, changed your testimony but none have this has been transcribed. If his union can listen and transcribe the hours worth of tapes in half an hour they can oppose them. On top of all this, your opponent barely speaks a word of english and is visibly confused and upset. You are fluent in English, having lived here for years, and have been coached and trained to know exactly what questions will be asked, by whom, and what answers you must give.
After weeks of delays, the 'verdict' is eventually given - your accuser is gulity of not only calling you a negro, but of saying a variety of words you didn't even say he had, for a number of times that you nor boss never even claimed. The paperwork will be produced in a few weeks (contrary to all tenets of Emplyment Law which state you need to have your reasonings available for scrutiny IMMEDIATELY) and all company PR briefings state that anyone who opposes this is themselves a rascist. On New Years Eve, at tea time, the documents is slipped out on the company website: a short, self-justifying summary and 115 pages which do not, at any stage, offer any evidence that supports any other assertion that your co-worker, whilst using a stupid, innapropriate word in his cultural ignorance, has done anything other than he originally honestly (and naively) admitted to. The consequence being that the union now advises anyone accused of racism to not co-operate with any inquiry and reserve the right of silence until all evidence is produced.
As a postscript, after the eight week suspension is reluctantly accepted on the basis that the HR department have told the accused that if his union dare appeal the sanction will double and the company's PR department will hold daily briefings that he, his union, his family and any co-workers are in league with the Ku Klux Klan, does your boss pull you over and say "For Christ's sake Patrice, had we known they'd fall for that we should have said he'd called you something racist thirty six times and got him suspended for a year. Now then, there's some other non-black workers from other departments in the store who are getting fantastic sales figures for their bosses that are affecting my bonuses. I'd like you to meet Mr Silva, Mr Modric, Mr Mata, Mr Van Persie...."