There is a decent chance your current employer is violating the rarely used blacklisting law: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_659.805 The...

There is no way to know from this little of information as to the strength of a case. I would suggest finding an employment law attorney in your...

Generally, yes. The main exception would be if your employer is subject to the predictive scheduling law, and most employers are not subject to...

Employment is at will, meaning an employer can terminate an employee for any reason or no reason, as long as that reason is not unlawful. Unlawful...

This is fairly normal in that you actually will not be employed and instead are being classified by them as an independent contractor. As part of...

I would suggest staring with forming an LLC, opening bank accounts in the business name, getting insurance, and in general doing that. In time you...

You are correct that the station is liable as the employer, but you may have to sue them or get an attorney involved for them to accept liability.

Yes, employers can require such things.

How long, never. Legal options, give them a deadline to come pick it up (or have them send a pre-paid box to ship it back to them) that is...

Purely from an employment perspective, it is not illegal. One or both of the companies employing you may prohibit it as a contractual matter though.