On this page you can look up information about the status of cases docketed before the United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ)
and Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA). For pending cases, you can obtain basic information such as date docketed, date referred, date assigned, hearing date, etc.
If the case was already disposed of, the search results page links to the published decision(s).
You can use this service by entering the OALJ or BALCA Case Number. This number appears at the top of the caption on the first page of all documents issued by OALJ and BALCA. If you do not know
the case number, contact OALJ at 202-693-7300.
You will need to input the case number in this format: yyyyaaannnnn
Here is an example: 2000bla00001
The OALJ/BALCA case number has three components: (1) the Fiscal Year in which the case was docketed, (2) a three letter acronym for the case type, and (3) the sequential number of the filing. For example, 2005BLA00011 would be the eleventh black lung
case filed in Fiscal Year 2005.
In the case search box:
- Use the full year for the Fiscal Year (i.e., 2005 instead of 05). Note that Fiscal Years
for the federal government begin on October 1, rather than January 1 as in a calendar year.
- For the Case Type, use the three letter case type acronym. A list of the acronyms used by OALJ is found below.
- Use zeros in front of the sequential number of the case (i.e., 00011 instead of 11).
If you do not know the OALJ or BALCA case number, but know the case number assigned by the agency from which the case originated, you can try inputting that number.
This alternative search will only work if that number exactly matches a datafield in the OALJ Case Tracking System. This alternative method does not work for Black Lung Cases because
the OWCP number is not tracked in the OALJ Case Tracking System.
Here are some examples of how agency case numbers are typically formatted:
- OWCP Longshore Case Number:
00-000000
(LHWCA; Defense Base Act, etc.)
- Wage and Hour Division:
0000000
(e.g., Davis-Bacon Act; Service-Contract Act; LCA enforcement, etc.)
- ETA, OFLC, Chicago National Processing Center:
C-00000-00000
or 00000-00000
(H-2A and H-2B labor certification)
- ETA, OFLC, Atlanta National Processing Center:
A-00000-00000
(PERM appeals)
- EBSA:
00-0000n
(ERISA cases)
- OSHA:
0-0000-00-000
(whistleblower)
- OFCCP:
00-00000
If you know that a case is docketed at OALJ, but neither the OALJ, BALCA or agency case numbers works, contact OALJ at 202-693-7300 for assistance.
Acronym Definitions
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ACA | Affordable Care Act Whistleblower |
AIR | Aviation Investment & Reform Act (AIR21) Whistleblower |
ARN | Nonimmigrant Nurses (H-1A and H-1C visas) |
BCA | Board of Contract Appeals |
BLA | Black Lung Benefits Act |
BLO | Black Lung Benefits Act |
BMO | Black Lung Benefits Act |
BTD | Black Lung Benefits Act |
CAA | Clean Air Act Whistleblower |
CBV | "Collective Bargaining Variance" under the Service Contract Act |
CCP | Decertification proceedings under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act or
the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937 |
CER | CERCLA Whistleblower |
CET | CETA |
CLA | Child Labor Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act |
CPS | Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act |
DBA | Davis Bacon Act |
DCA | Debt Collection Act |
DCW | District of Columbia Workers' Compensation |
EPP | Employee Polygraph Protection Act |
ERA | Energy Reorganization Act Whistleblower |
FLS | Fair Labor Standards Act |
INA | Pre-PERM permanent alien labor certification |
JSA | Job Service Complaint System |
JSW | Job Service Complaint System Prevailing Wage LCA Appeal |
JTP | Job Training Partnership Act |
LCA | Labor Condition Applications (H-1B visas) |
LCA (§ 655.731(d) case) | Labor Condition Applications; Prevailing Wage Appeals [redesignated
as JSW] |
LDA | Defense Base Act and Related Acts |
LHC | Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (claims) |
LHK | Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (penalties) |
MAP | Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act |
MSA | Petition for modification of mine safety standard under the Federal Mine Safety & Health Act |
MSP | Migrant and Seasonal Occupational Worker Act |
OAA | Older Americans |
OFC | Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs |
OSH | OSHA Rulemaking |
PCA | Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act |
PED | PERM permanent alien labor certification debarment cases |
PER | PERM permanent alien labor certification and
immigration related prevailing wage appeals |
PSI | Pipeline Safety Improvement Act whistleblower |
PWD | Prevailing Wage Determination (H-1B, H-2B, PERM) |
RIS | Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
SCA | Service Contract Act |
SDW | Safe Drinking Water Disposal Act whistleblower |
SOC | "Standards of Conduct" in federal labor unions under the LMRDA |
SOX | Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower |
SPA | Seaman's Protection Act whistleblower |
STA | Surface Transportation Assistance Act whistleblower |
SWD | Solid Waste Disposal Act whistleblower |
TAE | "Temporary alien employment" (H-2A visas - Wage & Hour enforcement) |
TLC | "Temporary labor certification" (H-2A cases - ETA certfications) |
TLN | "Temporary labor certification" (H-2B cases - ETA certfications) |
TNE | "Temporary labor certification" (H-2B cases - Wage & Hour enforcement) |
TSC | Toxic Substances Control Act whistleblower |
UIA | Federal State Extended Unemployment Tax Act |
WIA | Workforce Investment Act |
WPA | Wagner-Peyser Act (Job Service Complaint System) |
WPC | Federal Water Pollution Control Act whistleblower |
WTW | "Welfare to Work" cases under the Social Security Act |
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