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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5 U! _+ \  Y* q  C; pThe 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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+ u  q' r# a7 _) S. N8 m) `It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.

Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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% @1 A$ s1 i; E+ M7 Q5 O8 LThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

% w1 ~0 b* u& F9 x4 c" z" xSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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; f3 p! i0 T( @: f8 N/ NPratt & 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.

# e& k! t) t$ kLast 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.