Former Parkview Health employee says company ‘shortchanged’ workers of pay

A class of former Parkview Health employees says the health care company used an illegal time-rounding system that shorted workers of their hours and pressured them to work longer or else face disciplinary action.

The named plaintiff, Jekeura Milligan, worked as a patient care technician at the Parkview Hospital Randallia facility in Fort Wayne from September 2024 to November 2025. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Indiana earlier this week, Milligan accuses Parkview Health System of failing to pay her and similarly situated workers overtime compensation — a violation of federal and state labor laws.

Parkview Health said in a written statement to The Indiana Lawyer on Thursday that it has not yet received service of the lawsuit.

“However, we are committed to complying with all applicable wage and hour laws,” Parkview Health said.

According to the complaint, Milligan was a non-exempt, full-time employee, meaning Parkview paid her hourly. She worked 12-hour shifts three times a week, including weekends.

Milligan’s shifts typically started at 6 a.m. and ended at 6:30 p.m. during the week. Parkview required her to clock in and out to track her time.

Although Milligan and the class of plaintiffs worked more than 40 hours per week, the complaint stated, Parkview failed to pay them the required 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for overtime hours, and it failed to promptly pay the employees for all overtime and non-overtime hours worked.

Parkview’s failure to pay results from a time-editing practice, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit alleges that Parkview has a time-rounding policy in which an employee’s tracked work time is automatically rounded to the nearest quarter of an hour in the system. For example, if an employee clocks in and starts working between 5:53 a.m. and 5:59 a.m., the start time is rounded to 6 a.m. Similarly, at the end of a shift, if an employee stops working and clocks out between 6:31 p.m and 6:37 p.m., the end time would be rounded to 6:30 p.m.

This time-rounding method works for Parkview’s benefit, Milligan argues, because she and other employees “routinely” clock in upon arrival and begin working, but that time could be rounded to appear shorter.

According to the complaint, Parkview disciplines employees who clock in late or are not working at the start of their shifts through a point system that, with a few late clock-ins, can lead to warning letters and termination.

“Defendant’s policies intentionally create a powerful incentive for employees to arrive early and perform work that, due to a “rounding” system that intentionally and non-neutrally adheres to Defendant’s benefit, goes unpaid,” the complaint continued.

Milligan, on behalf of herself and the other class members, now asks the court to order Parkview to provide information needed to determine other similarly situated individuals, such as payroll records and contact information. Milligan’s attorney, John Steinkamp, did not immediately say how many individuals he predicts could be included in the class.

Milligan also asks the court to officially certify the case as a class action and declare Parkview’s actions as a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and Indiana law.

The case is Jekeura Milligan, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Parkview Health System, Inc., D/B/A Parkview Health, 1:26-cv-00337.