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As the Minister said, the employment tribunal already has a two-year-long backlog. This provision will make it a whole lot worse. Employers are all too familiar with being held to ransom by spurious claims. If people thought that one woman’s £50,000 payout after being compared in the workplace to Darth Vader was expensive, they should wait until the Chancellor finds out what her colleagues have been saying about her. Dan Pollard, a partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said: