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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; M1 f$ I- j! B7 o% G  D4 h, nThe 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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; h1 b9 W) j, [: S2 {It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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7 V# x( a& Y0 i/ s& ^Employees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.

0 l- @- p6 `" s$ Q! l" E7 IThey were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs.

Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.

$ _0 O' X7 s, Q4 q7 P0 ?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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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.

) j  `: z& L8 }7 V6 _Last 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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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn.