Tesco job cuts won’t hit Ireland

Tesco’s Irish operations — which employ more than 13,000 people — will not be affected by the British supermarket giant’s latest cost-cutting round.

Britain’s biggest retailer has proposed closing its customer service centre in Cardiff with the loss of up to 1,100 jobs, as part of a broader drive to cut costs and improve margins.

The company said it was consolidating its two UK customer engagement centres into a single expanded operation in Dundee, where 250 new positions would be created.