Technician claims a blanket accommodation cap forced him off work, then cost him his job
A former HVAC technician says Sodexo's rigid 90-day cap on modified duty pushed him out of work and cost him his job.
That is the central claim in a lawsuit brought by Michael Corona, who filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on April 21, 2026, under the caption Corona v. Sodexo, Inc. et al., No. 2:26-cv-02223. He is suing Sodexo, Inc. and its subsidiary, SDH Services West, LLC, under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Kansas law, alleging disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, retaliation, and retaliatory discharge tied to his workers' compensation claim.
Corona worked as an HVAC technician assigned to a Merck & Co. facility in De Soto, Kansas, from April 2023 until his termination on April 4, 2025, according to the filing. He says he hurt his left shoulder on the job in April 2024 and was later diagnosed with a rotator cuff tear, a superior labral tear, an AC joint injury, and an anterior labral tear. Surgery followed in June 2024, including rotator cuff repair, distal clavicle excision, and extensive debridement.
He returned to work that September on restrictions set by his workers' compensation providers, performing modified duties. But after 90 days, Corona alleges, the company pulled that accommodation under what he describes as a blanket rule capping modified duty for injured workers, even though work within his restrictions was still...
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