If you want to keep your job, you have to react quickly because there is only a three-week period in which legal action for protection against dismissal can be taken.

IMPORTANT! Contact an advice centre, a union or a specialist solicitor as quickly as possible. They will provide you with information about what action you can take.

IMPORTANT! You must have registered with the employment agency as seeking employment no later than three days after you received the notice of termination. This can be done in person, by telephone or online. If you register later, you run the risk of reductions to unemployment benefit.

You must notify the employment agency of your unemployed status in person and no later than on your first day without employment. Your unemployment benefit will only be paid from the day on which you register your unemployed status.

More information: https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/arbeitslos-arbeit-finden/erste-schritte-arbeitslosigkeit