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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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.

& r( L: s2 v; t, W% ?# SIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.

Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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" \4 H/ h% p' e9 g* }They 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.

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.

% G: C6 N+ E, p; U, C6 U6 sNews 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.

$ _+ x0 W+ b) Y. v) w5 R2 [* T) ]Last 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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! {. q8 O' \! W! z+ p: ]Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.