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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.: E* ~+ v/ ? I A' y/ ]1 f, E) Z
+ l: T- P( [6 Z' P* R# ] D0 b! x* CThe 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.+ t" Z$ p* z L* q0 u# {
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.+ Q5 e8 e8 B7 `/ d; A/ e7 S
* t' Y$ {8 q$ {3 @. z0 b9 i+ t4 IEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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8 N9 C; c ~, I# a" _0 H: m' A: AThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.% P) o. S0 b8 [( j3 x
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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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+ \. X! H* a0 x- r% e. n/ 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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& ~" @5 |( o7 H) v/ {; R1 h$ aNews 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.) ]2 ?+ O) p# @5 s
$ S) Y2 ]& Y1 uLast 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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