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.

; H+ M, u$ C3 ^8 NThe 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.
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2 N) J) Q* z8 `' HEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

6 P5 V; M# a) l6 D' PThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

& E& j/ G/ E# T& t6 p5 s; @4 ISources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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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.

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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) m2 U, l. k7 aLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

  h$ d8 M: ~/ W; u& l$ Y. a% NPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.