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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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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.7 I6 H: x& ~' }* B. \2 [& j' A
/ O7 l# M; h! v0 I; P- [Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.: L9 @; D3 H! f8 X9 @0 f) x o3 @
. s3 p# ~3 ^+ X7 f3 L/ {They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected. A9 l+ J. [: F( m, o3 v$ z3 l
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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.4 q% _2 T f6 B- J
9 T1 L( c6 K) _# M; T7 XNews 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.# R( Q7 f3 R3 E2 |% I3 `: }9 I
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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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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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