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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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4 B" o% i, l G# J' iThe 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.' \3 M0 J; z5 l6 c" n
2 P$ l& x3 p; S; t2 x) VIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.% |1 J' b0 Z- C1 V
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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4 W+ a8 H/ q6 [1 @& T0 k5 qThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.$ P+ i: J& V( w5 G: s1 h
/ D- J) r' v" r, O4 _ G8 ASources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.6 d0 f% I* B. e3 {
$ @$ z% [7 N: T: |( G s$ IPratt & 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+ l$ `( d+ Q( ^/ H9 U. W3 [
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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.- n- s/ p7 I% ]: u- n
$ [5 a N! e1 Z( ]8 c# mLast 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 a5 f! a6 Q1 B9 _; s9 X" JPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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