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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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$ [7 [+ W1 ~ Z% @) hIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.- h$ V+ p& u( B; [: ?
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.! f, U. u8 |) }/ x
6 U9 P, m/ A+ g, m8 V5 DThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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3 \% g! p: Y1 v U2 m {Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.3 S" l) ?0 Y% }) T
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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.6 x; o7 c% Z5 q# J5 `: O& {$ _
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.% O: G! p" ?9 i6 W5 s5 ?4 B0 U
& o2 ^$ }' E) }5 |, p7 R6 O" ^! QLast 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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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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