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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.1 c. T' d0 A O2 a2 x* ~
5 ]8 O4 C6 U( G+ y6 O z, sIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.; Q+ R5 w: S1 R) Q4 ~" G: N" u3 R3 r* f
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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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9 N( r0 Y7 q+ L% s9 g; E) l+ ]/ RSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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& e6 N$ \0 P FPratt & 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.6 E9 I0 L7 l z. b2 q1 {
1 Q H7 |! ?, f1 _+ N% q6 WNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.7 `2 R* U+ K! _7 Z, t. l) O
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.+ J. @/ G, N5 F/ q! D$ U
5 y) X8 x6 H6 P/ `6 E' tPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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