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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.+ y% v* |' g, z7 `
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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.9 G2 \0 w9 v; l$ N& j* A
. d) Z- K- K. K7 v/ B# cIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.$ B( c: H& y& B" a! U6 |2 V
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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/ E% m0 V" L& M9 G- Y, UThey 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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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.3 t9 G1 F2 ~, o. v( y
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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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% c% {/ d. }. Q; K! D& VLast 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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' X% U5 _2 a0 D( O/ Q n7 T3 ~Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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