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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.
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5 Z N! V; J2 QIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.' T& M2 z8 k( m2 f# `8 k5 r/ B! e. M
0 u' v5 t$ a" h, n. g* H. uEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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6 { R6 D8 o4 i1 E/ rThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.+ [/ {1 a" Z' o3 l
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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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& [+ G' u, ]5 Y6 l+ r8 N1 IPratt & 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.) U2 u) E- [) Z# u$ r
% h# m8 w" T- y4 k8 ?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.9 V' f3 Y/ F+ M% M9 ~: z
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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.- c+ r5 `1 Y1 I! i& |7 F; ?) \
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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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