Panel: Alabama workforce can benefit from pandemic
A panel of Alabama business leaders said the state can benefit from some of the changes that came with the pandemic, including remote meetings, maintaining healthy work and home boundaries and frequency of changing jobs. The panel at Birmingham’s Luckie agency included Shipt and Landing founder Bill Smith; Joanne Hale, associate dean and COO of the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business; Greg Barker, president of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama; and Cornell Wesley, director of Birmingham’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity. – AL.com
Job portal launches in West Alabama
The Tuscaloosa County Commission and West AlabamaWorks! are partnering to launch a student employment jobs portal called I.G.N.I.T.E. Student Jobs. Employers can submit open positions for students ages 14-18, and students will look to the portal for summer jobs and employment during the school year.   – West Alabama Watchman
Small Sliders eyeing Alabama expansion
Small Sliders, a restaurant chain whose specialty is cheeseburger sliders, is looking to open a location in Alabama. The chain has headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. – WHLT 12
