It would be wonderful if employers would become aware of this important news.

I agree with Skybark that it would be very risky for the Depressed Employee (herself/himself) to bring this news to the employer's attention.

The release itself contains the detrimental statement that this employee will be less productive to the tune of 30-50 days a year.

What I've seen happen during 30 years as a worker is that when an employer wants to fire, they start building a personnel file of all one's errors. And everyone makes mistakes, sooner or later. And they wait until that file gets fat enough to constitute sufficient reason for firing.

So one may not get fired for depression -- that could tripped an EEOC case. But they will wait and wait until there are other errors. In my case, bad proofreading, for example, can result in a print run having to be done over, and that's expensive. And they will keep a record of all the times that happened, and that -- not the depression -- would constitute reason to fire.

Anyway, that's just my little contribution to how I've observed the work world.