Laws, courts and authorities
SGB
Abbreviation for Sozialgesetzbuch
In short and in plain language
The SGB is the German code of social law.
It has several books. They are numbered with Roman numerals.
Book III covers, for example, money for building workers when work stops in winter.
Definition
The SGB is the German Social Code, which brings together German social law in several books numbered with Roman numerals. Book III (SGB III) covers employment promotion, including the seasonal short-time allowance that employees in construction, for example, can receive during the bad-weather period.