"...would be terminating the pilots during a training session..."
Are they actually planning to fail the recurrent check so they have an excuse to fire the pilots?
Any attempt to use such an obscene method of cost cutting should be stamped on with a unified ferocity that would bring tears to the eyes of their employers. I was not affected, but I remember the so-called Teesside massacre, where 32 pilots were suddenly not quite good enough to fly (what was then, a very large aircraft.)