Why is there no law to prevent unemployment?
Now, with the Galaria Karstadt Kaufhof bankruptcy and the many people losing their jobs as a result, I've been wondering why, in Germany, a social welfare state, there's no law that stipulates that, in the case of impending layoffs and downsizing, company bosses or employers are obligated or responsible to help employees find a job, actively mediate within the industry, or offer them an alternative position within the company. Why can bosses just pretend they don't care?
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There are even such measures. It is usually part of a social plan.
https://kluge-seminar.de/br-portal/knowledge/economic/social plan/
What exactly do you want to achieve with the obligation of employers? What you’re doing is not gonna happen. Rather, companies are legally driven into bankruptcy or chased abroad. Goodbye Germany as a business location!
The state is not intended for this. Its role is limited to making the country an attractive company location and thus attracting as many companies as possible. This is done, for example, by tax reductions.
The state must not prescribe to a citizen where he has to work. That would be labour camp-like conditions.
Unemployment is not intended as a permanent state, but unemployment benefits are obtained as a state survivor’s pension until one has found a job again.
For this purpose, Germany as a social state has the Federal Employment Agency, which covers precisely the points you have addressed.
Is there anything?
Not always from the employer, but the state takes care of it.
The Federal Employment Agency is exactly what you asked.