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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" |& G2 P: J- B! ^; I4 IEmployees 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.
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' A' b7 S8 V) r" E$ J( K# p* ~: HSources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.
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) Q2 g9 p5 G- u" _% TPratt & 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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( r2 v$ h# ~, E# g2 XNews 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.

6 U9 L6 ^; O, a; T9 zLast year, the company also won a major contract to provide more efficient PW810 engines for the Cessna Citation Columbus large business jet.

8 B& p: g$ J+ `1 C" h- F1 U  C1 ePratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.