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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., `4 s+ e5 u$ _
# t2 I' T; C3 X- {2 n# d2 VThe 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.0 i6 h1 W4 A# ]7 B) F$ ~
- Y# M! L8 A+ DIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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7 I% v/ r2 Z2 e+ H! l9 j& PEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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7 g6 i$ Y+ L TPratt & 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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# v- Q7 |" ?; C6 V4 E& ^ l3 KNews 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 O# f9 {5 g7 Q9 ^' n
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Last 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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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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