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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.3 @3 G2 r: z" w7 Q. ^9 [. p- L2 t, y
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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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1 J* i6 ^/ L$ VIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.! ]3 t# W7 \6 Y: }6 _
: }, |% _% e6 b# NEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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8 [- w/ I4 B0 t# jThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.! A' n. _2 j3 G8 F W V
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.* ]2 M' `4 B; v' P
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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.: X) T1 }2 s6 e4 Z
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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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# K8 O! ~5 w" g" P4 DLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.* Q0 e6 `5 P4 N, A; H" h- N- g, @; 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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