807 (S.D.N.Y.1995) (enforcing arbitration agreement regardless of FAA exemption); see also Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co., 350 U.S. 198, 200-01, 205, 76 S.Ct. 273, 100 L.Ed. 199 (1956) (upholding application of state arbitration law to interpretation of arbitration provision in FAA-exempt contract); Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Tank Transp., Inc., 779 F.Supp. 947, 950 n. 3 (N.D.Ill.1991) (“[T]he fact that the FAA is not immediately applicable to the issues in the instant case does not eliminate arbitration as an acceptable dispute resolution mechanism, nor does it evidence a pre sumption of non-arbitrability.”); cf. Volt Information Sciences, Inc. v. Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford University, 489 U.S. 468, 477, 109 S.Ct. 1248, 103 L.Ed.2d 488 (1989) (<HOLDING>). The effect of the FAA’s inapplicability,
holding that the faa mandates courts to direct parties to arbitration on issues to which a valid arbitration agreement has been signed holding that faa does not occupy entire field of arbitration holding that the faa requires arbitration of age discrimination claims when a valid arbitration agreement exists recognizing a liberal federal policy favoring arbitration in the faa holding that mandatory arbitration agreements in the employment context fall under the faa