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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.* w6 w6 {* x' C7 `- G1 ~& E/ h5 f
* a+ n8 H# ^: W+ ]1 PThe 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.
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Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.8 c5 J2 v, d+ \' j' N0 k
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.' y/ Q3 d7 Z& s/ U( D2 u
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.+ }8 }/ \, f! L3 T0 O
9 y" u$ N) X' s5 f% _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.' ^+ M& y% H1 P, b
; t; D3 m* Q% v- [) SNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.+ Q$ f0 `9 @, Q0 U
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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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# s( z: k. _3 z% r' A) @Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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