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.

# c) W; P8 U/ G; U: P# tThe 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.

  D3 {* s2 e- L% C) p6 kThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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1 g% P' s" E; _$ aSources 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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& S5 q. e  B% C! C9 C) tNews of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.
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! y4 ~$ r/ j' S2 a9 q. n1 |9 M  q. cLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

. Y. q# g* R1 t2 B7 S& cPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.