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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.7 Y+ w& y3 x, Y
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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.( G/ ?; {/ U s) T$ _( K, n- J4 `
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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/ c: L9 R! A/ q' r K! {Employees 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.1 |5 R* `% q! U c9 ?% `# o
+ [( ~3 b$ F$ [ hSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.' u/ }* p% d; I1 l
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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.5 ?8 Z$ T7 k* H6 e
" }& c% J. h4 ~1 r5 G3 PNews 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./ @" g+ b' n2 w/ F/ i2 `1 W% ~
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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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3 M. K6 }) J( q/ J3 sPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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