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.

7 p- ^& ~1 z9 j! 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.

" C! S2 f  s" i7 J/ E; {It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.

  @- @0 Z8 s: ~" X( VEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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" c2 K) H5 g' L0 q, JThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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& K. r7 g" F9 M; f7 {% OSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

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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3 v  A& P" d  x+ `* o, ~8 s* [& NNews 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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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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+ e* ^. o- z1 ?0 ePratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.