In 2018, federal investigators cited then owner Hahn March for not paying overtime wages to employees at Aging and Disabled Home Healthcare in Indiana. March again finds herself under scrutiny for allegedly using improper pay practices at two Indianapolis home healthcare companies she owns, Signal Health Group Inc. and SHG Employee Leasing Company. March is named in an Oct. 21, 2024, complaint filed by the US Department of Labor in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana following an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that discovered March and Chief Financial Officer Nancy Stanley used an artificial regular rate pay scheme to lower hourly rates of pay and, in turn, shortchanged employees $86,427 in overtime wages. In its complaint, the department alleges that—from at least March 16, 2020, through March 15, 2022—the companies took several actions to make it appear they were paying overtime as required, including mislabeling wages as discretionary bonuses. The department is seeking $172,854, including $86,427 in back wages and an equal amount in liquated damages, for 43 current and former employees.
