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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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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+ j1 A5 j, K' T) f2 H* R: TIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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6 {- V/ w3 w4 xEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

( n- e0 {) W# c/ a( v% k9 C8 NThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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0 x8 o8 l% L: S5 GSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

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.
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; o( I* z( u* U. XLast 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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2 q/ S9 C" m- C5 P! ]Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.