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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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.
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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.
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They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

' H1 z# q% I8 w, z7 Y; U# b; ySources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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- u9 p* e7 q8 d( V  t3 A2 }7 {4 iPratt & 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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% E  _% k9 L, S8 [( CNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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" S! N& c8 b! j# ULast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
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$ y8 f, g% X+ D4 V) Y" VPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.