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California Law - Hotels Must Use 'Fitted Sheets'? Costs $15 Million...
cbs47 ^ | 8-4-11 | cakid1

Posted on 08/04/2011 3:09:36 PM PDT by cakid1

Its not a done deal yet, but lawmakers in Sacramento want a new law that would force all California hotels to start using 'fitted sheets.'

The law, is designed to cut back on hotel health problems for maids.

Supporters of the law - claim many of the injuries are preventable - if hotels started using fitted sheets and made other changes in the work load for hotel maids.

The California State Senate has passed a bill proposed by Sen. Kevin de Leόn (D-Los Angeles) that would help prevent or reduce housekeeper injuries.

"A representative of the hotel industry, led by the California Hotel and Lodging Assn., told a Senate Committee that if SB 432 passes, California hotels will have to spend an additional $15 million or more to buy fitted sheets to replace the sheets for 550,000 beds at $25 per sheet. "


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KEYWORDS: california; datsalottasheet; fittedsheets; hotels; kevindeleon; sheets
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This is a PERSONAL INJURY TRIAL LAWYER full employment act.

It'll drive costs up not only from lawsuits but the elastic wears out faster, machines used to fold the flat sheets can't fold the fitted sheets, they'll need to buy more sizes.

21 posted on 08/04/2011 4:13:20 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Next: get behind ONE "Balanced Budget Amendment" (BBA))
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To: gunnut
If it was about reducing hand injuries, insurance companies would be all over this and companies would gladly pay the extra money to reduce workers comp claims. Not sure what the reason is but it is not hand injury.

Good points - also if it was about hand injury, lawyers would be advertising how they'll 'FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT NOT TO HAVE HAND INJURIES'...

22 posted on 08/04/2011 4:15:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (This “wussification” of America is an on-going phenomenon.- freeper rokkitapps)
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To: Kirkwood
No more broken fingernails! Ever!

I've broken several putting fitted sheets on my bed. Can't see how this helps the health of maids.

Also, they are a nuisance in the washing machine. I wash my fitted sheet separate from the others because things get tangled up in it.

23 posted on 08/04/2011 4:17:51 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: cakid1

Well, one day in the old west, this Mexican walks into a hotel and asks for a room. The desk clerk asks him what kind of sheets he’d like on his bed, to which he responds by pulling his six-shooter and says: “You sheet on my bed and I will keel you!”


24 posted on 08/04/2011 4:19:01 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: cakid1
I'm sure the fitted-sheet manufacturers didn't pay any legislators to introduce this legislation.

Why, that would be unethical.

25 posted on 08/04/2011 4:22:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: JPG

My GF says if this way: “I’m a sheet slitter, I slit sheets. I’m the best sheet slitter that ever slit sheets”.


26 posted on 08/04/2011 4:23:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: cakid1

There’s apparently even a youtube video about this bill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZTpUFMsHJo

BTW, here also is the press release from the state senator’s own page:

http://sd22.senate.ca.gov/news/2011-06-22-release-hotel-housekeeping-bill-end-%E2%80%9C-our-knees%E2%80%9D-bathroom-cleaning-and-backbreaking-


27 posted on 08/04/2011 4:23:54 PM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!)
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To: newzjunkey

I assume hotels will have to submit a monthly report to the state.

Create government jobs.


28 posted on 08/04/2011 4:30:18 PM PDT by donhunt (I am sick and tired of those bastards insulting and lying to me.)
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To: cakid1

Sounds to me like mucho sheet.


29 posted on 08/04/2011 4:31:34 PM PDT by rogator
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To: OrangeHoof

What’s a hospital corner? Anything to do with coroners? LOL!


30 posted on 08/04/2011 4:34:09 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: FrdmLvr

LOL “You ask me if I know Pancho Villa! I had lunch with heem today.”


31 posted on 08/04/2011 4:34:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (No dark sarcasm in the press room ... Hey!, Barry!, leave them bills alone.)
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To: Rebelbase

Where my GF and I work in the shipping/receiving department she is always dropping the packing slips on the floor before the merchandise goes out the door so I have to tell her, “Hey GF! Pick up that sheet, and pick up that sheet! And tha sheet, too!”


32 posted on 08/04/2011 4:38:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: cakid1

Are all of the maids in CA a bunch of midgets or are all of the beds Kalifornia Kings?


33 posted on 08/04/2011 4:39:55 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Ronin

With the liberalizing of marijuana laws, more idiots will have pipe dreams of more laws to dictate the operation of a business. Soon, all employees will be required to provide pot smoking lounges at every place of business. Such rooms will be equipped with air purification systems to control second hand pot smoke, a snack bar for the management of munchies, state of the art music systems to enhance the psychodelic experience and, of course, free pot. Work is not an exchange of value but a one-way street where the employee can get as much as they can get at the expence of the employer.


34 posted on 08/04/2011 4:45:20 PM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: JPG

I slit the sheet and the sheet slit me.


35 posted on 08/04/2011 4:47:29 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cakid1

You would think that with 550,000 sheets you find a better deal than $25 each?

What do they use now?


36 posted on 08/04/2011 4:50:13 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ( Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we can identify their corporate sponsors.)
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To: cakid1

The maids got tired of the request for a “fresh sheet on the bed.”


37 posted on 08/04/2011 4:51:46 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: DemforBush
This is shameful, a symptom of our national dysfunction, example after example. This is the reason the legislatures should be part time, there is no reason for layers of governments- fed, state, county, local- to be full time passing law after ridiculous law, each trying to fine tune our human behavior into somebody's ideal.

Who exactly dreamt up this notion of using fitted sheets? Was it a special fitted sheet interest? A union? Insurer? A doogooder politician?

38 posted on 08/04/2011 5:10:49 PM PDT by polstar123
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To: DemforBush
This is shameful, a symptom of our national dysfunction, example after example. This is the reason the legislatures should be part time, there is no reason for layers of governments- fed, state, county, local- to be full time passing law after ridiculous law, each trying to fine tune our human behavior into somebody's ideal.

Who exactly dreamt up this notion of using fitted sheets? Was it a special fitted sheet interest? A union? Insurer? A doogooder politician?

39 posted on 08/04/2011 5:11:07 PM PDT by polstar123
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To: Argus

Yeah, but if we did that, we’d run out of politicians, who then couldn’t vote for more idiotic laws and-—ohhhhh.

Never mind. I like where you’re going with this. :-)


40 posted on 08/04/2011 5:18:22 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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