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Redundancy means that they get paid for being made to leave the company. That terminology is used because it's different from being fired.
It's basically just British terminology for layoffs with a severance package.
It amounts to the same thing, though. Whether you got a few months pay to carry you through or not you still lost your income, and there's no guarantee you'll ever find a job that matches it in pay, benefits, etc.
Read the guys comment again though. They say their issue is with calling them "redundancies" in a language sense. But it's not sugar coating it or anything, that's the legitimate term for what happened.