Workers at German company donated a cumulative of almost 3,300 hours in overtime so a colleague could look after his son, diagnosed with leukemia.


Single dad Andreas Graff has taken almost a year off from his job as an assembly worker at a design company in Hesse.

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After his four-year-old son Julius’s cancer diagnosis, nearly a thousand colleagues responded to a manager’s appeal.

“Without this great support, I would be unemployed,” the grateful father told a local paper.

When doctors told Mr Graff in January 2017 that Julius had leukaemia, a cancer of the blood cells, he quickly took all his allowed holiday leave.

The first nine weeks of Julius’ treatment had the then three-year-old confined to a bed.

Mr Graff, 36, was afraid he’d lose his job once he finished his unpaid leave.

However, a HR manager intervened and with the approval of management and support of the workers union, Manager Pia Meier called on employees of the company Seidel and a subsidiary in central Germany to contribute to an overtime fundraiser.

“The reaction of our employees was incredible,” she said.

Within a fortnight of posting sign-up sheets, a total of 3,264.5 hours were donated.

Overwhelmed by the generosity of fellow staff, including trainees who had never seen him, Mr Graff wept with joy upon realizing that he could take more than 12 months off his job to take care of Julius.

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Tunagee:


The question is would these same people have done same for a black person with same problem?