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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.$ _& v4 n: \1 x: Y0 l/ O- F( f/ _) u9 x
3 s% \- R+ w/ S! X! p% r8 EThe 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." s# d2 Z1 S; i- S
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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." Y) I- T2 k% g, k3 v5 _2 a
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs. X9 J% ~8 x) S) y
3 f2 U& ?: y' R: `Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.7 b% [& t* }9 a% c7 R% }9 o
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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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0 j7 P6 k1 b2 _8 e- VNews 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.) l4 G. K8 b5 |
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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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