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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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, o& o. |+ h: [/ A/ _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.8 r7 {: A; ^. W1 Y/ l- \
; u* p# y( O+ z! J! W h( DIt 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.; [: u& |" @8 K4 ~
8 G( _+ T. r O/ U- R" N+ s! M8 dThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.: Y: }! W, W2 Y: k+ K$ }
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.6 u- c A9 `5 i7 ^$ W. {
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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.
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4 \+ W% S: \( l8 J+ H! nNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet., t" ~( ?- J: c- D3 |$ }$ t
' A; Q& Z! m& aPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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