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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.' `; V/ j- Z5 L& c8 D9 I
2 H8 z( j$ N5 TThe 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% I+ b' i: ~: G( D+ F8 c
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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; C7 p8 ^/ l/ ]. ^5 PEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.9 ~2 m! h- Y7 v
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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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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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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.1 x. q1 e- ~+ z' B7 j# W
( g5 j' m6 ~ e, @! YNews 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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: Q! U! W. T0 {- ^! \2 J3 LLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.# O, x6 |, K, e m r
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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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