Welsh Conservatives have called on the Local Government Minister to condemn Cardiff council plans to employ a total of 27 directors and assistant directors at a total cost of 1.67 million pounds.
Plans for a massive expansion of management were recently revealed by the Labour-run council.
Only two years ago, senior managers there were slimmed down in order to ‘protect frontline services’.
Last year the Local Government Minister made it clear he wants to see more councils sharing senior staff in efforts to make savings. He also called for more ‘innovative staffing practices’.
Shadow Minister for Local Government, Janet Finch-Saunders AM, said:
"This is yet more unacceptable Labour empire-building that must be immediately condemned by the Minister.
"How can this executive possibly defend spending so much money on a new tier of unwanted management?
"Taxpayers will rightly question why a new band of high-flying overpaid execs is being flown in at a time when everyone else is tightening the purse strings.
"If similar positions were slimmed down to save frontline staff two years ago - what’s changed now?"
South Wales Central Assembly Member and Leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Assembly, Andrew RT Davies AM, said:
"The Minister must put politics to one side and condemn his Labour colleagues for this management madness.
"He has previously called for shared staffing and cost-saving in Welsh town halls and should step forward to question this nonsense before it’s too late.
"Labour’s Cardiff manifesto fails to mention their intention to inflate the council’s top earners for no good reason. The city’s voters will rightly question its glaring omission."
Mae’r Ceidwadwyr Cymreig wedi galw ar y Gweinidog dros Lywodraeth Leol i gondemnio cyngor Caerdydd sy’n bwriadu cyflogi cyfanswm o 27 cyfarwyddwyr a chyfarwyddwyr cynorthwyol ar gyfanswm o gost o £ 1,670,000.
Mae’r cyngor Llafur yn ddiweddar wedi datgelu cynlluniau ar gyfer ehangu’n enfawr y nifer o reolwyr.
Dim ond dwy flynedd yn ôl, roedd gostyngiad yn y nifer o uwch reolwyr er mwyn 'ddiogelu gwasanaethau rheng flaen'.
Llynedd, wnaeth y Gweinidog dros Lywodraeth Leol gwneud yn glir ei fod am weld mwy o gynghorau’n rhannu staff uwch mewn ymdrech i wneud arbedion. Mae’r Gweinidog hefyd wedi galw am fwy o 'arferion staffio arloesol'.
Dywedodd Gweinidog yr Wrthblaid dros Lywodraeth Leol, Janet Finch-Saunders AC:
"Mae hwn yn esiampl o’r blaid Lafur unwaith eto yn adeiladu ymerodraethau mewn modd sydd yn gwbl annerbyniol ac mae rhaid i’r Gweinidog eu condemnio ar unwaith.
"Sut y gall Cyngor Caerdydd amddiffyn gwario cymaint o arian ar haen newydd o reolwyr diangen?
"Bydd trethdalwyr yn iawn i holi pam bod angen band newydd ‘execs’ pan fo pawb arall gorfod bod yn fwy gofalus a’i harian nag erioed.
"Os oedd rhaid gostwng y nifer o swyddi rheoli i arbed staff rheng flaen ddwy flynedd yn ôl - beth sydd wedi newid nawr?"
Dywedodd Aelod y Cynulliad dros De Cymru Ganolog ac Arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig yn y Cynulliad, Andrew RT Davies AC:
"Mae rhaid i'r Gweinidog roi gwleidyddiaeth i un ochr a chondemnio ei gydweithwyr Llafur dros y gwallgofrwydd swyddi rheoli yma.
"Mae’r Gweinidog wedi galw o'r blaen ar gyfer rhannu’r nifer o staff rheoli a darparu arbedion ar draws neuaddau tref Cymru a dylai nawr gamu ymlaen i gwestiynu’r nonsens hwn cyn ei bod hi'n rhy hwyr.
"Wnaeth maniffesto Llafur yng Nghaerdydd methu i sôn am eu bwriad i chwyddo'r nifer o enillwyr uchaf heb reswm da. Bydd pleidleiswyr y ddinas yn iawn i gwestiynu ei hepgor amlwg."