this incident raises the question of personal health and a company's REAL attitude towards it, not the fluffy "we'll look after our staff"
PR spin.
I'm not referring to UAL, don't know how they would treat this. There are many people out there who expect that there employer would suspend them immediately, without pay and would make every effort to terminate them asap, rather than work together to find a mutually acceptable solution.
This leads to situations where pilots are flying when they should not be.
Before anyone shoots me down, not all employees have the luxury of union representation or a sympathetic management.