Actually, all CX and KA pilots based in the UK are employed by UK subsidiaries of those companies and are therefore fully protected by UK and EU employment laws. Whether the companies like it or not.
This is an interesting precedent and a departure from a previous interpretation of the Employment Rights Acts and prior relevant legistlation which presumed that all redundancies had to be seen to be fair, and that last in first out was not necessarily a fair way of deciding who was to be made redundant.