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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.. J" {2 j5 R, o; a* D9 i: P
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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., A* P o- C- F" V
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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.0 I$ O) |6 m- g' c
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Sources 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.
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+ Q9 u% F# z8 m' v1 j. _* I+ q$ BNews 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.) U9 ^+ j# ?1 x( S4 [7 U
% s" _& Q3 ?7 E2 M0 jLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.: P7 v1 E6 N/ R' ]# O
& M4 L9 O" h* o# _Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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