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.

! x1 E  B1 F4 ~) f! AThe 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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/ L  I! b/ [' I8 H5 P3 s( ?- eEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

' @- ?; o& K9 `0 l! mThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

4 ^* Y( h( U; L% j0 C- G5 CSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

/ ^+ R  G4 M7 p. Z& KPratt & 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.

Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.