Laid-off BioWare employees sue over severance pay: 'We are struggling to understand why BioWare is shortchanging us'

A group of seven former BioWare employees who were among the 50 laid off in August have filed a lawsuit against the company seeking better severance pay and punitive damages for what they claim is "unreasonably poor treatment by BioWare" following their termination.

Worobec Law Offices, the firm representing the former employees, said that in "most recent court cases of termination without cause," courts in Alberta, Canada—where BioWare is based—have awarded at least one month of severance...