The FTC Noncompete Ban, a Texas Court, and the Eleventh Hour with Jocelyn King, Founder and CEO of VirgilHR

For this episode of “Small Talk Window,” Jocelyn King, CEO of VirgilHR, joins host Brent Skinner to discuss a Texas-based court’s eleventh-hour effect on the Federal Trade Commission’s brewing, hotly debated ban on non-competes. HR departments were going to have to comply with a key component of the (putting it charitably) now-in-flux regulation by Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024—tomorrow, if you’re listening to this episode the day it went live. The back-and-forth that has swirled around the FTC’s moves related to non-competes provides a caricature of the chaos and inefficiency that HR departments face day in and day out when it comes to compliance. Add in uncertainty, when stakeholders wait till the last minute to comply with this or that proposed new regulation because they bank on it not happening after all, and HR’s job becomes all the more difficult. Jocelyn should know and walks Brent and those tuning in through this television court drama–caliber story that unfolded in recent weeks.