The way I look at it, it isn't about employment so at will is largely irrelevant save the 'but we could have' arguments which I don't think fly here. Instead i

The way I look at it, it isn't about employment so at will is largely irrelevant save the 'but we could have' arguments which I don't think fly here. Instead it is about compensation for said employment. If lawyers get involved, I bet this is where it will go. Also understand the last thing Zynga should want is for lawyers to get involved in this for two reasons: 1) It's distracting to management and 2) From what the WSJ says about it, this sort of thing hasn't gone much before the courts so there is a lot of uncertainty as to what the law allows and Zynga could lose big. If the affected employees are smart they will use these factors to their advantages and get lawyers involved right now, forcing Zynga to back off or fight.