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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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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.- y2 _3 S5 r9 A( q( j T
" o0 R% B( ]0 pEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.: n5 f j. U" F+ ?6 O5 t1 }8 O
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.8 A& U! R! I% D( q7 Z# R( `
. p/ z7 U7 Q1 ~# F6 }1 LSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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# H6 g( {1 w: y7 ^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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d# q6 o( L) U$ z. S/ M( hNews 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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8 j l6 O% e* b' s" H! @ wLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet./ S9 G+ H1 z: v6 d# i7 k) L! _
/ J; Y0 K) }7 t5 {; G: T' BPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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