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Aircraft engine maker Pratt & Whitney Canada is poised to lay off as many as 1,000 employees worldwide in the coming months.
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The company employs 10,000 people around the world, including 7,000 people in Canada. Most of the company's workforce is in the province of Quebec./ }( W9 m5 C2 { y! F
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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) ~& {5 t5 P$ h5 C4 F4 cEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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' l. b, C8 D9 }# V* IThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.3 d7 o1 i: R! u6 v
# R: c) i& ~0 N8 {Pratt & Whitney Canada makes jets for Bombardier and Cessna, two airplane makers that have announced their own cuts due to a slowdown in the aerospace industry., d) i; [7 z, b3 D; o
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.; H! b& x; s. X( b
+ F- t" T# P! C( Q qLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
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1 \2 F: m8 J1 v+ }0 u! S8 WPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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