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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.5 `7 K2 K6 ^% @! c8 q+ b# X
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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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2 n( x1 q& Q V" O0 m, [( kIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.* l) D3 [6 G- H" E G7 b" b
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.2 b/ l! u2 c' L* X
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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2 s4 h. _/ _0 d/ wSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.9 r% w E/ m& R* g: W: x+ {
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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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. u U8 i V' L2 ^( p7 WNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.5 X" m9 s8 y: ?2 G" n
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
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$ G* s, H2 ~+ _Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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