In legal terns, dismissal covers redundancy too, which is why I never argued the point. My point is that "sacked" is a layman's term not a legal one as he originally claimed. Also, dismissal is usually used with a qualifier, as I pointed out. In layman's terms, you wouldn't use "dismissed" to describe a redundancy you would use it to describe a "sacking", i.e. a dismissal for doing something wrong. Unless "sacked", "sacking" etc are used in law his whole point is moot.