Staff work 3,000 hours overtime so colleague can take care of son

Employees at a German firm worked almost 3,300 hours overtime so their colleague could look after his son with leukaemia.

A local media report found that the workers donations enabled the single father take almost a year off to look after his four-year-old.

After his son Julius was diagnosed with cancer, over 700 colleagues at the design company responded to a HR manager’s appeal, asking workers to contribute to an overtime fundraiser.

"Without this great support, I would be unemployed," Graff told local paper, Oberhessische Presse.