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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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6 u$ d6 N1 a# g. w, VThe 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.: `$ Y) [% |3 e0 {4 ?9 ^( 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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0 V- E1 L( j& N- _) ~9 lEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.' Y; e, f7 g W. X
4 q* {" M" ~% [* ~/ d1 Z2 E. mThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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1 R8 K+ u! X) p( h7 v S, PSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.# ~2 p, q" r/ F; f+ r
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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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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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7 }0 n; A/ Z) tLast 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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