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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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9 k8 T0 }7 V7 Q0 e8 Z* d9 NThe 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.1 t2 t6 @& C5 _- Q
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.+ X, W0 F1 `' Q
; u4 M2 {1 i# j, qEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.4 G8 P! g' M" `$ o8 P
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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.
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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Last year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet." s$ @ y! V* f+ Y ?: l1 S
/ E, J# e1 C6 DPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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