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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.
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.# _3 X- L$ q' Q! ]+ D- p7 C
' z5 P) Z1 U8 [9 }6 Z7 mEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.3 C# v+ d8 E! n; j; s3 ]8 b3 c+ r
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs." x2 y" O! c4 K$ [+ B( h; A& _. E+ M
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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1 ?( F8 ?' K( J1 oPratt & 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 $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.$ S$ e g: M' A5 m' F8 i# W
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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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