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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6 i  m3 r, n" [! G" |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.
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' q5 `" X5 ^+ x  L2 e# u. J9 TEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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) \6 ?" s8 e5 f) D8 U1 vThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

0 T2 I: E0 G$ B* S& \; DSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

; [" N0 X, ]8 p7 A) X; a. R  bPratt & 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.

, s0 r1 J" S5 R( o) y; M6 RNews 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.

8 I8 ~' H0 P5 I7 U$ @' L/ JLast 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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3 N5 [) Q+ \! Q$ `Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.