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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.5 o+ p& s7 d' @& I9 A
. d( r. M8 @0 |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.4 a2 K5 a! O6 a4 C! g" ]0 O
) r$ z) {1 F6 c5 zEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.0 ~6 o' o/ H( P) E0 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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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.8 c' R6 V( }2 ~* I1 P7 U
1 k2 {4 l& @$ \/ Y" C( p, y+ xPratt & 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.+ G! K) |8 |8 }4 l* i6 j
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News of layoffs comes just months after Pratt & Whitney Canada announced a $575.3 million plant in Mirabel, north of Montreal. The plant is supposed to assemble and test cleaner, quieter and more efficient jet engines, creating 565 jobs.: ?) `: a# L+ g. ?( X0 r
7 R: B9 d2 |" d" uLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.
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m( _8 m u ^3 V- T/ ^3 h3 [& R$ b: gPratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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