NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1981 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1981; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1981
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I Unfair labor practice cases | |
| A Major stages completed — | |
| 1 Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 44 |
| 2 Complaint to close of hearing | 173 |
| 3 Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 139 |
| 4 Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 120 |
| 5 Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 490 |
| B Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 1981 | 421 |
| C Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1981 | 534 |
| II Representation cases | |
| A Major stages completed — | |
| 1 Filing of petition to notice of hearing issued | 8 |
| 2 Notice of hearing to close of hearing | 12 |
| 3 Close of hearing to — | |
| Board decision issued | 209 |
| Regional director's decision issued | 19 |
| 4 Filing of petition to — | |
| Board decision issued | 215 |
| Regional director's decision issued | 41 |
| B Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1981 | 251 |
| C Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 1981 | 62 |
p. 240. Two printed columns: the stub "Stage" and a single value column "Median days". All values are clear and unambiguous. Row-label outline markers (I, II, A, B, C, 1-5) are transcribed as they appear in the scan, without trailing periods; the scan is faint enough that a small period after each marker could have dropped out, and in this scan the dots over many "i" characters are likewise missing (e.g. "Unfair labor practice" renders as "Unfaır labor practıce"). Standard spelling has been restored in the labels. The two "Close of hearing to —" / "Filing of petition to —" lines (items 3 and 4 under II.A) are label-only lines whose values appear on the two indented sub-lines beneath each; those sub-lines are transcribed as their own rows. Note "Regional director's" is lowercase in items 3 and 4 but "Regional Director's" is capitalised in line II.C, as printed. The long rows I.A.3 ("Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision") wraps onto two printed lines and has been joined into one row.
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.