Workaround to support org.junit.runners.Parameterized in Gradle

Gradle is unable to run JUnit tests annotated with:

import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;

@RunWith(value = Paremetrized.class)
public class UnitTest {
// ...
}

There is an official issue for this problem from June 2014 yet unsolved.

Are there any workarounds for enabling those tests (in Gradle 2.4)?