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.

. R, }/ L5 r1 L  Y( }% l% {It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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1 k8 x8 m+ k  u  z: kEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.
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/ C+ v; ]# s  t& Y' }+ X1 }/ x/ PThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.
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9 c5 O$ k/ @/ [9 `! PSources 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.

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.

9 \( g  ~' Z: B# b! UPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.