NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2008 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 2008; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 2008
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I. Unfair labor practice cases: | |
| A. Major stages completed | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 98 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 143 |
| 3. Close of hearing to administrative law judge's decision | 70 |
| 4. Receipt of briefs or submissions to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 29 |
| 5. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 269 |
| 6. Originating document to Board decision | 178 |
| 7. Assignment to Board decision | 124 |
| 8. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 559 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 2008 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 335 |
| 2. From close of hearing | 63 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2008 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 1,028 |
| 2. From originating document | 346 |
| 3. From assignment | 244 |
| 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 | 227 |
| 5. Close of post-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 165 |
| 6. Filing of petition to- | |
| a. Board decision issued | 251 |
| b. Regional Director's decision issued | 39 |
| 7. Originating document to Board decision | 113 |
| 8. Assignment to Board's decision | 71 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2008 | |
| 1. From filing of petition | 484 |
| 2. From originating document | 217 |
| 3. From assignment | 152 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2008 | 105 |
p. 143. Two printed columns only: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days"; the Roman numerals I. and II. sit in a hanging indent of the stub, not in a separate ruled column, so they are kept at the head of their labels. The image is clean and every figure is legible. Row "6. Filing of petition to-" is printed with a trailing hyphen because it runs on into sub-items a and b; it carries no value of its own, as do the section lines I., II., A., B., C. (except II.C., which does carry 105). Apostrophes are typographic curly quotes everywhere except in row I.B ("administrative law judge's decision"), where the scan shows a straight apostrophe; all are transcribed with the plain apostrophe character. No totals are printed, so nothing could be cross-checked arithmetically.
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.