7.__Telephone access.__The employer shall ensure that forestry workers residing in employer-provided housing have access to a telephone for personal calls.__The employer is not responsible for the costs of personal calls made by the workers.

§645.__Expenses not responsibility of workers

1.__Equipment and supplies provided at employer expense.__An employer may not require a forestry worker to provide or pay for equipment or supplies necessary to the worker's duties, including, but not limited to, protective gear and clothing, sharpening tools, brush saws and other tools or machinery used to perform reforestation activities and the gasoline, oil and other items necessary to operate such machinery.

2.__Recoupment from worker prohibited.__An employer may not take any action, including, but not limited to, lowering any wage or piece rate paid to a forestry worker, to directly or indirectly secure, procure, obtain, recover or recoup from any forestry worker any of the costs or expenses that must be paid by employers pursuant to this subchapter, including, but not limited to, the costs of housing, transportation and equipment and supplies.

3.__Worker may negotiate certain equipment use.__This section does not prevent a forestry worker who owns a brush saw from voluntarily negotiating, at the worker's option, an arrangement with the employer whereby the employer reimburses the worker at a reasonable rate for the use of the worker's saw.

I.§646.__Prohibition aII.gainst discrimination and retaliation

An employer or other person may not intimidate, threaten, restrain, coerce, blacklist, discharge, fail to recruit, fail to rehire or in any manner discriminate or retaliate against a forestry worker because the worker has:

1.__Proceedings.__Made, filed, instituted, caused to be instituted or participated in any way in any proceeding under or related to this subchapter;