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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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.

$ T( i2 |6 q3 ^: n+ M; rEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

$ l& ?/ `3 k' S$ G/ n% _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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# |8 @0 _+ a! ?. A' kPratt & 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.

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.

( I' K: H! F8 {" |% ]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.