Tesco workers facing redundancy as the Parkhead store cuts its opening hours will get help from the city’s employment and skills project – the Glasgow Guarantee.

Council leader Frank McAveety has pledged support to the staff after the supermarket giant announced plans to reduce opening hours.

He said: “The Glasgow Guarantee has helped thousands of people across the city find work, training and new skills – and, if it can support any of the Tesco staff facing very difficult and uncertain futures right now, we’ll do whatever it takes to make that happen.”

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Glasgow City Council’s multi-million-pound Glasgow Guarantee covers a range of job, apprenticeship and training schemes from school-leavers and graduates to forces veterans and the over-50s.

However, the council today committed to ensuring anyone made redundant from the Parkhead Tesco store is eligible for support from the scheme – regardless of their age or period of unemployment.

As the Evening Times reported last week, the chain announced UK-wide redundancies that will hit stores in Glasgow’s east end and Wishaw.

Tesco Parkhead and Tesco Wishaw will no longer operate 24 hours.

Greg Hepburn, SNP councillor for the Calton ward, said the Parkhead store is a well used resource in the local area.

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He added: "It is not good enough for Tesco not to give more detail in its plans for staff cuts, they have given out as little information as possible, adding to the stree for staff. I am going to be writing to Richard Brown, chief executive of DRS, to ask what Glasgow City Council can do to support staff."

All affected stores will see trading begin at 6am and end at midnight.