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.
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$ k$ P7 ~) |0 ^4 p5 }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.

$ M0 T0 B1 I3 JIt is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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# z) l+ A! ~7 C. k1 Z  CEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

# s/ P& U! V7 T) n/ |- L+ @They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

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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3 C: v- ~% s/ i' e' F. mNews 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.

# N4 D. }0 s- X) a4 x& rLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

+ [: N7 ^: T# ~; h- ^% p7 a, i  OPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.