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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.3 Z# t; c3 t, C9 F7 F# j
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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.
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4 L* ]' E6 u* k4 u( \. X7 [- M) OIt 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.3 i1 z7 K+ \7 s; }% d
" p+ ]0 L7 w" ^/ e6 mThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.$ M; D a' M8 z+ p! a
( ~$ G' j8 t2 c* B! MSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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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.
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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.# {8 T& q2 ?, L% a
/ f% p! o" m1 {7 N- ULast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.% `' p) u) s3 I O' P
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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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