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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.: Q0 q4 j1 _& I- b- r; c/ r. l8 T
3 D6 M4 z) V4 J8 K! O7 yThe 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.8 N) L' w* q/ R9 l
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It 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.
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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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+ `; r% d" {1 c# X1 cSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.* Z8 v7 [' g, u0 p$ M2 t
( j" X5 { J! q) i3 \. uPratt & 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.
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) g2 X2 c% G7 u" S7 w; eLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.6 ^/ B: l1 E1 ~ F) p' }
5 a! A# Q6 n7 gPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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