Description
NLRB Field Examiner Academy
From First Inquiry to Case Resolution
Prepare new and developing field examiners to conduct fair inquiries, develop reliable records, apply current authority, and make supported recommendations through investigation, representation, resolution, and compliance assignments.
Audience: New and developing NLRB field examiners, investigator trainees, and agency training cohorts with an assigned instructor, coach, or mentor.
96 planned learning hours: 48 hours of Foundations, 36 hours of guided case practice, and 12 hours of capstone assessment. Breaks excluded; timing awaits pilot validation.
Suggested cohort schedule: 8 weeks at approximately 12 learning hours per week, excluding breaks. Foundations in weeks 1–4, guided labs in weeks 5–7, capstone in week 8. Actual pacing depends on the validated delivery plan and learner needs.
Your learning pathway
- Prepare: Orientation, learning-needs discussion, technology check, and faculty review arrangements.
- Learn: Complete the 12-unit Foundations course with spoken practice, legal research, and reviewed work products.
- Confirm readiness: Faculty reviews the Foundations portfolio and an oral readiness conference.
- Practice with a coach: Follow an individual lab prescription through three complete fictional cases.
- Demonstrate independently: Complete investigation and representation capstones and defend your portfolio.
- Review and transfer: Receive a human completion decision and a workplace development plan.
Practice that responds to you
Speak with realistic AI characters in your own words. Their responses adapt to your questions while staying within each character’s role and case facts. Review exhibits, test competing accounts, explain your legal reasoning, and prepare a usable record. A lifeline offers a nudge, strategy, optional example, or separate coaching when you are stuck.
Instructors assess evidence and judgment rather than keyword recitation. The learning design combines conversation, research, document work, feedback, revision, and independent demonstration.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the Field Examiner role, authority boundaries, and correct investigation or representation pathway.
- Plan and conduct impartial interviews that distinguish direct observation, inference, and corroboration.
- Preserve source traceability, corrections, contrary evidence, and a defensible inquiry record.
- Research current statutory and procedural authority and explain how it supports or limits the next action.
- Analyze incomplete or competing accounts and make an evidence-based recommendation with identified gaps.
- Prepare representation, election, resolution, and compliance work for the appropriate authorized review.
- Defend an integrated portfolio and a concrete development plan in an oral review.
Course sequence and planned hours
| Unit | Subject | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| FE01 | Purpose, role and professional judgment | 4 |
| FE02 | Statutory foundations and issue spotting | 4 |
| FE03 | Ethics, research and reliable records | 4 |
| FE04 | Intake and investigation planning | 4 |
| FE05 | Interviewing and statement review | 4 |
| FE06 | Documents and corroboration | 4 |
| FE07 | Evidence analysis and recommendation | 4 |
| FE08 | Disposition, resolution and handoff | 4 |
| FE09 | Compliance verification and closure | 4 |
| FE10 | Petitions, units and eligibility inquiry | 4 |
| FE11 | Hearing work and election preparation | 4 |
| FE12 | Election administration through closure | 4 |
| SIM01 | Harbor Point Coffee: intake to closure | 18 |
| SIM02 | Riverton Distribution: petition to disposition | 12 |
| SIM03 | Cedar Valley Local 214: union-conduct inquiry | 6 |
| CAP01 | Independent investigation and completion | 6 |
| CAP02 | Independent representation assignment | 4 |
| CAP03 | Portfolio defense and development plan | 2 |
CEU planning: 4.8 CEUs proposed for Foundations and 4.8 for the lab and capstone; 9.6 proposed for the full pathway. Final eligible hours and awards require ADRACEU internal approval and verified successful completion. No credit is awarded merely for purchase or participation.
Enrollment and delivery
Registration is open. Choose one program option, sign in or create your student account at checkout, and complete payment. Confirmed payment activates 180 days of course access. Coaching is arranged with ADRACEU Student Services. Lab and capstone entry require the applicable readiness review. CEUs remain proposed pending eligible-hours validation and internal approval.
Contact ADRACEU about a cohort or demonstration
Independent professional development offered by ADRACEU. Fictional training cases. Not an NLRB-issued credential, agency endorsement, employment appointment, or guarantee of case outcomes. CLE credit is not included in the CEU proposal.
