Most of the rest of the western world where there is decent employee protections there is usually a clause in the local version of the Basic Conditions of Employment act that reads something like:
"The employer shall provide the employee with all resources and materials necesary to complete the Work for which they have been employed."
I’ve learned that’s what’s the law and what’s done in practice are often quite different.
Eg. A tool belt may not be necessary to get your job done, so the company won’t provide one. However it may make the work experience a 100x better, so everyone is likely to have personally bought their own.
Yes, we need better laws and better enforcement. For some reason the modern conservative movement detests anything like this somehow suggesting this is in the employee’s interest because they now have more freedom.
"The employer shall provide the employee with all resources and materials necesary to complete the Work for which they have been employed."