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The Ashanti Regional Advisor for Lotto Marketing Companies & Retailers Association, Mr. Dominic K. Asamoah has observed that until casual workers are paid well by their employees in this country, Ghanaians would always complain of hardship in their living conditions. He has therefore suggested to the National Labour Commission to compel employers to at least pay their casual workers a minimum of GHC10.00 a day so that the hue & cry of hardships in the country minimizes. Speaking to this paper in Kumasi last Saturday, Mr Asamoah noted that low salaries paid casual workers has brought about losing thousands of Ghana Cedis through stealing by their employees and servants. According to him, not a single week passes by where a newspaper or a radio station would not report of an employee who has stolen his employer�s money and bolted away with it all because such employee is not treated well in terms of salary. Mr Asamoah cited an example where a house-help or maid servant is paid a scanty amount a month, and stressed that, house-helps or maidservants must be paid handsomely and accommodated so that they do not harbor any evil mind while serving their employers but rather give off their best in the course of their service. According to him, there are instances where a Director of a Private Security Company would negotiate with a financial institution and claim about GHC300.00 as salary for a security man but at the end of the month, that employee is given GHC100.00 as take home pay forgetting about transport, rent, utility bill etc. This scanty salary, Mr Asamoah observed would not make such employees feel happy with the work he is doing, thereby making him to hatch plans of stealing his Director�s money and bolting away with it. �This situation do not speak well of a country like Ghana, so I am imploring employers to pay their workers well and also do well and pay their social security deductions so that such workers do not become paupers when they retire from work,� he articulated.