NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2003 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 2003; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 2003
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I. Unfair Labor Practice Cases: | |
| A. Major Stages Completed— | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 90 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 113 |
| 3. Close of hearing to administrative law judge's decision | 82 |
| 4. Receipt of briefs or submissions to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 33 |
| 5. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 420 |
| 6. Originating document to Board decision | 291 |
| 7. Assignment to Board decision | 246 |
| 8. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 647 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 2002 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 236 |
| 2. From close of hearing | 67 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2002 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 1030 |
| 2. From originating document | 455 |
| 3. From assignment | 386 |
| II. Representation cases: | |
| A. Major stages completed— | |
| 1. Filing of petition to notice of hearing issued | 1 |
| 2. Notice of hearing to close of hearing | 13 |
| 3. Close of hearing to Regional Director's decision issued | 22 |
| 4. Close of pre-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 145 |
| 5. Close of post-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 245 |
| 6. Filing of petition to— | |
| a. Board decision issued | 265 |
| b. Regional Director's decision issued | 40 |
| 7. Originating document to Board decision | 105 |
| 8. Assignment to Board's decision | 93 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2002 | |
| 1. From filing of petition | 473 |
| 2. From originating document | 319 |
| 3. From assignment | 278 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2002 | 155 |
p. 199. Two printed columns only: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". The roman numerals I. and II. are set in a hanging position at the far left of the stub column, not in a separate column, so they are kept as part of the row label; the A./B./C., 1.-8. and a./b. levels are indentation only and are likewise kept in the label. Possible misprint in the source: the caption dates the pending-case counts September 30, 2003, but every "Age of cases pending ..." section head inside the table (I.B, I.C, II.B, II.C) reads "September 30, 2002". Transcribed as printed. Row I.C.1 "From filing of charge" is printed as 1030 with no digit-grouping comma; transcribed as printed. Apostrophes are typographic in most labels but appear straight in row I.B ("judge's"); all are transcribed as a plain apostrophe. Row II.C is the only lettered section head that carries a value (155); its leader dots run to the figure, so the value clearly belongs to that line and there is no separate numbered row beneath it. The crop ends just below the table's bottom rule, where the caption of Table 24 begins; that caption line is excluded per instructions. No footnotes are printed under this table (the superscript 1 visible at the end of the Table 24 caption belongs to the following table).
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.