What is an Ar­beits­be­schei­ni­gung?

When you lose your job, your employer must send an Arbeitsbescheinigung to the Agentur für Arbeit. This allows you to get unemployment benefits.

The Arbeitsbescheinigung is not the same thing as the Arbeitgeberbescheinigung.1

Sources and footnotes
  1. Kathleen Parker at Red Tape Translation (July 2024)