NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1986 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1986; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1986
Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1986; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1986
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I Unfair labor practice cases | |
| A Major stages completed— | |
| 1 Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 45 |
| 2 Complaint to close of hearing | 98 |
| 3 Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 125 |
| 4 Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 293 |
| 5 Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 769 |
| B Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 1986 | 381 |
| C Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1986 | 796 |
| II Representation cases | |
| A Major stages completed— | |
| 1 Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued | 8 |
| 2 Notice of hearing to close of hearing | 14 |
| 3 Close of hearing to— | |
| Board decision issued | 256 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 22 |
| 4 Filing of petition to— | |
| Board decision issued | 302 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 44 |
| B Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1986 | 210 |
| C Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 1986 | 33 |
- 1 From filing of charge
- 2 From filing of petition
Reader’s notes
p. 285. Two printed columns: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". The outline markers (I, II, A, B, C and 1-5) appear without trailing periods in this scan; they may be faded periods in the original, and they are transcribed as seen. Doubtful cell: "Regional Director's decision issued" under "3 Close of hearing to—", Median days column — the second digit is struck through by a scanning artifact; it reads most plausibly as 22, but 27 cannot be fully excluded. Row label "1 Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued" is printed that way (reads as a likely misprint for "to notice of hearing issued"); transcribed as printed. Rows 15-16 and 18-19 are indented continuation lines belonging to the "3 Close of hearing to—" and "4 Filing of petition to—" headings respectively; their labels are kept as printed without the parent text.
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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.