According to the Equal Pay Act of 1963,an employer may pay workers differently for all of the following reasons EXCEPT for ________.
A) production quantity
B) merit systems
C) seniority
D) gender

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The Equal Pay Act made it unlawful to discriminate in pay on the basis of sex when jobs involve equal work-equivalent skills, effort, and responsibility-and are performed under similar working conditions. However, differences in pay do not violate the act if the difference is based on a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, or a differential based on any factor other than sex.

According to the Equal Pay Act of 1963,an Employer May