NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2009 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 2009; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 2009
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I. Unfair labor practice cases: | |
| A. Major stages completed— | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 100 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 91 |
| 3. Close of hearing to administrative law judge's decision | 73 |
| 4. Receipt of briefs or submissions to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 31 |
| 5. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 175 |
| 6. Originating document to Board decision | 123 |
| 7. Assignment to Board decision | 85 |
| 8. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 483 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 2009 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 321 |
| 2. From close of hearing | 56 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2009 | |
| 1. From filing of charge | 963 |
| 2. From originating document | 402 |
| 3. From assignment | 243 |
| 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 | 19 |
| 4. Close of pre-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 123 |
| 5. Close of post-election hearing to Board's decision issued | 168 |
| 6. Filing of petition to- | |
| a. Board decision issued | 245 |
| b. Regional Director's decision issued | 37 |
| 7. Originating document to Board decision | 113 |
| 8. Assignment to Board's decision | 82 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 2009 | |
| 1. From filing of petition | 440 |
| 2. From originating document | 260 |
| 3. From assignment | 233 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2009 | 103 |
p. 155. Two printed columns: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days" (printed on two lines, joined). The page is a clean vector/digital-era print and every figure is legible. Structure kept as printed: the Roman numerals I. and II. sit at a shallower indent than the A./B./C. and numbered lines, but all of them belong to the single stub column. Section and heading lines that carry no figure ("I. Unfair labor practice cases:", both "A. Major stages completed—" lines, the B./C. age-of-cases headings under I, the B heading under II, and "6. Filing of petition to-") are given with an empty value cell. The one exception is "C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 2009" under II, which is itself a data line and carries 103. "6. Filing of petition to-" is printed with a trailing hyphen because it reads into its own sub-items a. and b.; it is not a word broken at a line end, so the hyphen is retained and the line is kept as its own row. Note that several labels repeat verbatim between sections (e.g. "2. From originating document" and "3. From assignment" appear under both I.C and II.B); they are distinct rows with different values. Apostrophe glyphs are inconsistent in the original: most possessives use a curly apostrophe, while "B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision" uses a straight one. All have been written with the plain ASCII apostrophe. The footnote marker on "4. Close of pre-election hearing to Board's decision issued" is a raised 1 printed immediately after "issued" and before the leader dots; it is recorded as ^1 and is not part of the value 123.
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.