For most jobs, when an employee commits lapses such as sleeping while he's on duty or turning up drunk, investigations are likely to be conducted internally to determine the appropriate punishment, if necessary.
For professionals like lawyers and medical practitioners, they, too, have industry councils to probe errant behaviour and mete out punishments such as warnings.
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