Lawsuit maps every pressure point HR teams hit when an accommodation request goes sideways
McDonald's is being sued by a former technology director who says the company punished him for asking to work around a disability.
The complaint, filed May 1, 2026 in federal court in Chicago, lays out a sequence that HR leaders will recognize as a textbook accommodation dispute - and a textbook list of the things plaintiffs' lawyers look for when one goes wrong.
Daryl Pace worked as a Director of Vendor Governance and RCOE in McDonald's Global Technology department from March 2024 until November 4, 2025. He has Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, a hereditary neurological condition that affects his mobility and his ability to travel, according to the filing. On May 14, 2025, he formally asked McDonald's for a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act: continued remote work and limits on travel, supported by his physician. The complaint says the role had been performed entirely remotely since he started, and that the original role description did not require in-person vendor travel.
What happened next is the centre of the lawsuit. According to the complaint, Pace's supervisor, James Green, Sr. Director of Global Technology, told McDonald's ADA team that the role was "vendor-facing" and required in-person travel. Pace alleges Green said he was "anti-ADA" and that "once employees go ADA, you can't fire them."
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