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Many start-up businesses are formed by first-time entrepreneurs who are often unfamiliar with the requirements and pitfalls involved in forming a new business. As a result, they often fall victim to the following mistakes:

RBE successfully obtained a dismissal of claims under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act against RBE clients, Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County and American Senior Communities, from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in 2020 by arguing that the FNHRA does not create private rights of action for individuals. Following a decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the dismissal, the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to take up this case to determine whether the FNHRA creates private rights of action for individuals to bring against government-funded nursing homes.

Unlike the hat the coach gave you when you played Little League baseball, when it comes to employee handbooks or manuals, one size does not fit all. If your company is going to have an employee handbook—and every employer should—that handbook should be unique to your company.