NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2004 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 2004; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 2004
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I. Unfair Labor Practice Cases: | |
| A. Major Stages Completed— | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 87 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 114 |
| 3. Close of hearing to administrative law judge's decision | 78 |
| 4. Receipt of briefs or submissions to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 27 |
| 5. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 392 |
| 6. Originating document to Board decision | 206 |
| 7. Assignment to Board decision | 154 |
| 8. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 690 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 2004 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 332 |
| 2. From close of hearing | 70 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2004 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 1159 |
| 2. From originating document | 583 |
| 3. From assignment | 521 |
| 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 | 14 |
| 3. Close of hearing to Regional Director's decision issued | 21 |
| 4. Close of pre-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 485 |
| 5. Close of post-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 133 |
| 6. Filing of petition to— | |
| a. Board decision issued | 304 |
| b. Regional Director's decision issued | 38 |
| 7. Originating document to Board decision | 129 |
| 8. Assignment to Board's decision | 94 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2004 | |
| 1. From filing of petition | 576 |
| 2. From originating document | 336 |
| 3. From assignment | 426 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2004 | 135 |
p. 263. Two printed columns: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". The roman numerals I. and II. are set in a separate hanging indent position at the far left of the stub, and the A./B./C., 1.-8. and a./b. levels in successively deeper indents; all of them are part of the stub label and have been kept with their row text. Section and sub-section lines that carry no figure (e.g. "I. Unfair Labor Practice Cases:", "A. Major Stages Completed—", "6. Filing of petition to—") have an empty value cell. Row II.C ("Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2004") does carry a value, 135, unlike the other C-level lines. The superscript 1 on "4. Close of pre-election hearing to Board's decision issued" is the footnote marker. The page uses curly apostrophes in "judge's", "Director's" and "Board's" (one instance, section I.B, is set with a straight apostrophe); all are transcribed with a plain apostrophe. All figures are legible; nothing appears cut off by the crop.
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