 Mandatory consumer and employment arbitration should be distinguished from consensual arbitration, particularly commercial arbitration.Arbitration can be either voluntary or mandatory (although mandatory arbitration can only come from a statute or from a contract that one party imposes on the other, in which the parties agree to hold all existing or future disputes to arbitration, without necessarily knowing, specifically, what disputes will ever occur) and can be either binding or non-binding.Non-binding arbitration is similar to mediation in that a decision cannot be imposed on the parties.