Gary P. Howayeck, Practice

Keeping with our goal to reduce employment-related issues from affecting the workplace, our practice provides a wide-range of services including employment negotiation, litigation and employment discrimination and wrongful termination claims. We offer assistance with emploment policies, employee handbooks, hiring and firing practices and development of personnel policies and procedures. We can help you understand and work within the requirements of the state and federal employment laws and regulations such as the Family Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, maternity leave, enforcement of employee non-compete agreements and employee benefit issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Attorney Gary Howayeck has experience in representing employers and employees before federal and state courts, and administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Industrial Accidents Board.

Outside of the courtroom
A frequent speaker and trainer on employment law issues, Gary has given training sessions to the employers and business people at the Charlton Wellness Center and the Fall River Office of Economic Development. He also speaks on behalf of groups such the Fall River Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Development Center on such topics as sexual harassment, hiring and firing practices and discrimination prevention.

Since 1998, Gary has serve as Special Assistant Corporation Council to the City of Fall River, conducting employment litigation, primarily in workers compensation and employment related cases on behalf of the City of Fall River.

Active in his community, Gary writes a weekly column, A Look into the Law, for the Fall River Herald News'

Business Extra section (published on Mondays). He frequently publishes articles in the Business Advisor section of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce newsletter and the quarterly newsletter of People, Inc.

Past and present
Earning a B.A. in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in 1990 and a J.D. from the New England School of Law in 1995, Gary was admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Bristol County Bar Association, and the Fall River Bar Association.

Gary recently completed certification in the Massachusetts Discrimination Prevention Training Program. He was the only representative chosen for the program from Bristol County.

Prior to establishing his practice, Gary was an associate at Wynn & Wynn, P.C.