MD80 CREW RETURNED TO THE DEP GATE AFTER A FLT ATTENDANT PASSED OUT.

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FLT ATTENDANT PASSED OUT ON FLOOR AS WE TAXIED ONTO RWY FOR TKOF. WE WERE CLRED FOR TKOF. AS I WAS TAXIING ONTO RWY; THE FLT ATTENDANT CALL CHIME RANG. FO ANSWERED AND WAS ADVISED THE AFT FLT ATTENDANT HAD PASSED OUT ON THE FLOOR. I ADVISED TWR I WAS CLRING THE RWY AND GOING BACK TO THE GATE. I ASKED TWR TO CALL FOR PARAMEDICS TO MEET US AT THE GATE. I TAXIED BACK TO THE GATE WHERE PARAMEDICS REMOVED FLT ATTENDANT WHO; AT THIS TIME; HAD REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR INDICATES THE FLT ATTENDANT INVOLVED HAD A FEVER AND HAD BEEN SICK ALL NIGHT. CONTINUOUS VOMITING AND DIARRHEA WERE HER SYMPTOMS. THE COMPANY IS INTIMIDATING ITS EMPLOYEES TO NOT CALL IN SICK. A COMPANY MGR IS TO INTERVIEW EACH EMPLOYEE THAT CALLS IN SICK IN ORDER TO VALIDATE THE ILLNESS. AS A RESULT; MANY EMPLOYEES FLY WHEN THEY SHOULD NOT. THIS EXPOSES PAX AND OTHER EMPLOYEES TO WHAT EVER THE EMPLOYEE HAS. THE CAPT THINKS THE FLT ATTENDANT SHOULD BE COVERED BY THE SAME FAR'S COVERING PLT ILLNESS.