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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.: Z _) R8 H& {% p6 s1 f. E6 O
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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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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.& f' A* J6 \( c6 P" N b& n: Q9 H
% l$ y* k; X, a$ i6 H; IEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.% A' s& I C- Q4 `; q% C4 U) F7 E" d0 [$ I
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected./ p: w( @/ v5 D: i3 n4 @
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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.- v" ?( p5 a+ ~% K* M3 s
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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" `1 s$ d* Y& V* u, ULast 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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" i5 k* |. M+ l) j. u# NPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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