Dismissal means that an employee’s employment has been terminated at the employer’s initiative, as distinct from at the employee’s initiative. An employee may also be deemed dismissed if they have resigned but were forced to do so by their employer.
Employees who are employed for a fixed-term and whose employment ends by reason of the end of the fixed term are deemed not to have been dismissed for the purposes of unfair dismissal. If a fixed-term contract is ended early the employee has been dismissed.
An employee is not considered to be dismissed if they were on a training arrangement that has come to an end.