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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.2 {4 ^' Z8 [8 F w, W
; w2 ]% R9 J& L* T0 qThe 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.0 E1 L1 P. I# z8 \ S; t
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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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, Z( V0 v4 [( E7 ]% X$ G8 q4 DSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.! u; F- d) c' D2 N5 k
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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.* d8 l2 x g4 [
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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.. `4 ^2 _" q; h, ]# g
* e; a# U) Q& C1 m9 a7 xLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.( d+ ^" ^2 E/ O/ X, w; E& |
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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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