HOUSTON – Attorney Woodrow Epperson, of Kerrville, has filed a state district lawsuit on behalf of a man who asserts that Harris County Emergency Services District No. 48 terminated him because of his age.
In the suit filed on Apr. 2 in the Harris County 55th District Court, Leslie L. Fulgham accuses HCESD 48 of subjecting him to a hostile work environment because he older than the age of 40.
Stating that he was a “good, competent, dependable, and loyal employee,” Fulgham says he was required to perform his work duties “under persons and conditions where he was repeatedly subjected to outrageous and offensive abuse in and around the area where he performed his job duties.”
The defendant also required him to perform his job duties “so as to conflict with its own operating rules,” the suit says.
Fulgham further claims that HCESD 48 “tolerated and permitted a practice of repeated, unwelcome and uninvited offensive verbal and written utterances to and toward him and repeated unwelcome and uninvited offensive actions toward him, which the original petition labels as “extreme and dangerous.”
“The defendant’s unlawful conduct was so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community,” court documents say.
Fulgham seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
Harris County 55th District Court Case No. 2019-23386