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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.; W3 o2 P/ {. ?6 U" ^4 B. B
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.6 ^% B8 v# G& H
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.; k# y2 h: C: M4 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.4 Y7 S6 a! v9 X8 v
" n4 z; ], K$ _) S( c' a2 JSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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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.+ _' \; [. T; D9 L0 K; f, u! E8 Q
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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6 w' M4 s5 I$ [9 S% K( L$ uLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.- z9 Q' U, E9 \, `5 b6 R0 t
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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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