Donald Trump, who was elected U.S president last week largely onsupport from working-class voters, could scrap rules designed tomake pay in corporate America more egalitarian if the Republicanfollows through on a promise to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act.

Crafted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the lawcontains provisions that strengthen investors' ability to restrainoutsized pay packages for company chiefs. The bill requiresclawback provisions and advisory votes on executive compensation,and mandated disclosure of a CEO-to-worker pay ratio.

Trump soared to victory on promises of returning economic powerto “forgotten Americans,” criticizing CEO pay along the way. “Yousee these guys making these enormous amounts of money,” Trump toldCBS in a 2015 interview. “It's a total and completejoke.”