Marine working as security guard claims employer failed to accommodate disability
HOUSTON TX April 3 2018 – A Marine who served in the Iraq War claims his employer discriminated against him because he suffers chronic back pain.
Houston resident Chris Austgen filed a lawsuit against Allied Barton Security Services, now known as Allied Universal, in Houston federal court on Mar. 26.
According to Austgen, whom the defendant employs as a licensed security guard, the company failed to acquiesce his request for accommodations for his disability.
His request was to be moved to a post where he did not have to climb in and out of commercial vehicles all day daily, to which the suit asserts was declined.
Austgen says the respondent’s purported failure to timely and properly accommodate him caused him to suffer physical pain and mental anguish.
Consequently, he seeks unspecified monetary damages.
Ellen Spovach of the law firm Rosenberg & Spovach in Houston is representing the complainant.
Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas Case No. 4:18-CV-0949
