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. "
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.
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'...
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.
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!”
Why, that would be unethical.
My GF says if this way: “I’m a sheet slitter, I slit sheets. I’m the best sheet slitter that ever slit sheets”.
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:
I assume hotels will have to submit a monthly report to the state.
Create government jobs.
Sounds to me like mucho sheet.
What’s a hospital corner? Anything to do with coroners? LOL!
LOL “You ask me if I know Pancho Villa! I had lunch with heem today.”
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!”
Are all of the maids in CA a bunch of midgets or are all of the beds Kalifornia Kings?
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.
I slit the sheet and the sheet slit me.
You would think that with 550,000 sheets you find a better deal than $25 each?
What do they use now?
The maids got tired of the request for a “fresh sheet on the bed.”
Who exactly dreamt up this notion of using fitted sheets? Was it a special fitted sheet interest? A union? Insurer? A doogooder politician?
Who exactly dreamt up this notion of using fitted sheets? Was it a special fitted sheet interest? A union? Insurer? A doogooder politician?
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. :-)
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