[The proposed ‘comparable’ work standard is] so general and so vague as to give an administrator a grant of power which could destroy the sound wage structure which many industrial companies have worked for years to perfect.
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) expresses their opposition to some of the initial bill’s wording. From Comparable Worth, p. 211. NAM and its allies won this one. The original version of the bill proposed equal pay for “comparable” work, a term which can be interpreted expansively. Proponents feared that the term “equal” would be interpreted narrowly, and perhaps made to mean “identical” which would dramatically reduce the impact of the bill.
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