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.

% v8 c4 A/ p) ZIt 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.

8 }0 E  p: L7 z6 r+ q/ r- _6 o! hThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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: `/ o0 C3 M4 q7 f* MSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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3 t1 c  J% q+ ~6 ~+ z. M" V: u* rPratt & 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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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.

; h1 y6 q. g8 I& O0 h! o' ]- fLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.