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.
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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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: l) r: h% ~' [4 JIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.

* D( D% M& s4 O' T4 M, R6 tEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

7 A- A2 |1 e2 w9 z$ P5 Z4 FThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

, u5 Y* D  Q7 y; S5 HSources 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.

  ?5 O" f9 b( n4 K2 vNews 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.

; \: g2 Z: e0 }7 K& r, pLast 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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5 S, ^( `8 ]( U. c5 y) i- w5 GPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.