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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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! O8 W' j# T6 d( b, g& eIt 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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4 F/ d. E; \) k/ o) l WThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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( J' x! W) R; ~ v+ j0 OSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.& I; ^( {- K9 S( R( S* H/ W
l, ~0 d, T) QPratt & 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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. Z* o, }$ X% @News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.( W) f. d9 e+ ~$ F" L
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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.
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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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