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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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8 s( l+ e8 `( A5 p8 }" q5 \# cIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.2 _9 N2 P; d# S$ ?4 |2 Q! @2 j
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.' ^. Z8 p, @# h# r+ [! R* T/ {: X
- D7 W6 E5 A# r, \5 K$ l6 ]/ |They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.' A; C+ ?3 C) w5 J* h
: R; Z) @$ i9 QSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.9 ~( I) k: U8 ^' f d$ {( m
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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.0 G3 i- p" d9 y4 \$ U. K
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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.
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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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