Layoffs coming at jet maker Pratt & Whitney

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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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% y! ^+ \7 i' k( W0 mThe 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.
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

4 b$ T" ?" S* x6 @9 E0 IThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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5 I$ l3 O6 [8 y" g7 OSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

0 j: Y8 K5 N( o, `( x- N1 N$ qPratt & 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.
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* {! u4 v1 h5 W0 r1 j" x/ R) w4 dNews 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.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.