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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.. H9 W9 j! v/ s5 }
# D* u; s5 H* t+ Z! M/ uThe 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.- T: l2 U) n {7 r) z& a
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It is not known which of the company's facilities will be touched by the layoffs.
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8 Y2 u0 C" ~ m, ]; V9 k) aEmployees in Quebec received the information about the job cuts on Wednesday.# ?8 Z8 ~ I% O
+ P) U" @0 r& s2 Y; \They were told that it could be months before the company decides on the extent and locations of the layoffs. q3 E4 m R% k' Y0 H/ {
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Sources have indicated to Radio-Canada that the division that makes jet engines for business planes could be affected.5 `. y, r& ~* L: W* V
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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.% c8 A) e7 Y' ]7 E9 f. n9 m
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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.
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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.4 J! E( x4 H# J7 G- Y# S) V) i2 n. p
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Pratt & Whitney Canada is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, a high-technology company based in Hartford, Conn. |
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