New £27m Tesco to create 80 jobs

Eighty new jobs will be created when construction of a £27million Tesco superstore is completed later this year.

Work on the store at Burnt Tree Island on the Dudley-Sandwell border, started in March and the building is rapidly taking shape, with the sales floor already completed.

Bosses claim there will be more than 80 fresh vacancies at the store, expected to be open before Christmas. It is likely to bring the grand total of workers at the supermarket to 380.

When the store shut in January, 120 staff remained on site at a temporary branch and 180 were sent to work at supermarkets across the West Midlands.

Talks are taking place with staff to ensure they want to return by December.

But some workers fear they will be asked to take a reduction in hours, up to two hours a week, to accommodate the new positions and changes to how the store operates.