It depends.
For example, the RCMP has what's called a salary continuance sick leave model, because we have no short-term disability insurance plan. We have a long-term disability insurance plan that you can access only by discharging from your job. We have a salary continuance model, which means the responsibility is shared between the member—the employee—and the employer.
If I'm suffering from brain cancer, for example, the RCMP keeps the salary taps turned on while I seek treatment. They help me with treatment, and then I get back into my work. If I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety or alcoholism, the RCMP keeps the salary taps turned on while I seek treatment in order to get back to work. Sometimes that might mean a six- to eight-week in-patient treatment.
Those are things the RCMP is definitely made aware of to assess fitness for duty. However, the information that I provide through my psychologist that would perhaps be shared with Veterans Affairs to make a disability assessment is a little more in depth than what's provided to my employer for fitness for duty. That's the worry—the sharing between the disability pension provider's assessment and the employer.