Re: Kobe's Maid Sues -- It Was the Crappiest Job Ever

pauls2272@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
No skill, beside the ability to read, is required.

This skill is possessed by foreign born maids?

Reading?!? Uh, yes, I'm pretty sure even folks _not_ USA-born can
read---sometimes their native language _and_ English---and at the very
least the basic English in which such care instructions are typically
written.

And just for the sake of discussion, was it reported that the employee
was 'foreign'-born or are we making some assumptions here based on her
name? Just asking.

Every garment sold is
tagged with its very own specific cleaning/laundering instructions sewn
right into the seam.

Hmm, I had a girlfriend who owned high end clothing - when we went to
Nordstroms, the sales people all clustered around her and took her
upstairs to a special area. I don't remember seeing any tags on her
clothing but then I wasn't looking specifically for them.

Whether you saw them or not they were there. They're not billboards,
you know---just small fabric swaths stitched unobtrusively into a seam.
This really is news to you?!?

_Any_ garment sold, including at the highest-end clothiers, is legally
_required_ to bear maintenance instructions. And a $690 blouse from,
say, Nordstrom's would definitely carry such instructions--- and only an
imbecile would pay that amount for a blouse and not insist on it. From
what little I've read about Mrs. Bryant, there may not be a heckuva lot
to recommend her other than the statistical improbability she's an imbecile.

Low end clothing, your right but the designer made high end stuff, I
doubt bothers with putting tags on it. If your paying hundreds of
bucks for a shirt, you already know it can't be washed...

LOL! You couldn't be more mistaken. It has nothing whatever to do with
"bother." The law requires such labeling. Even from a logical
standpoint, the more a garment costs, the more essential it is to have
specific care instructions to extend its life, which entail far more
than merely whether to launder or dry clean!
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Federal Trade Commission Rule 423.3

This regulation requires manufacturers and importers of textile wearing
apparel and certain piece goods, in or affecting commerce, as commerce
is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act, to provide regular care
instructions at the time such products are sold to purchasers through
the use of care labels or other methods described in this rule.

PART 423—CARE LABELING OF TEXTILE WEARING APPAREL AND CERTAIN PIECE GOODS
423.5

Unfair or deceptive acts or practices-Textile wearing apparel and
certain piece goods. In connection with the sale, in or affecting
commerce, of textile wearing apparel and certain piece goods, it is an
unfair or deceptive act or practice for a manufacturer or importer:

(1) To fail to disclose to a purchaser, prior to sale, instructions
which prescribe a regular care procedure necessary for the ordinary use
and enjoyment of the product;

(2) To fail to warn a purchaser, prior to sale, when the product cannot
be cleaned by any cleaning procedure, without being harmed;

(3) To fail to warn a purchaser, prior to sale, when any part of the
prescribed regular care procedure, which a consumer or professional
cleaner could reasonably be expected to use, would harm the product or
others being cleaned with it;

(4) To fail to provide regular care instructions and warnings, except as
to piece goods, in a form that can be referred to by the consumer
throughout the useful life of the product;

(5) To fail to possess, prior to sale, a reasonable basis for all
regular care information disclosed to the purchaser.
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Wanda
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"When I say 'Lakers!' you say 'Go!'"
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-Caron Butler
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