Spain still faces an uphill battle in restoring its battered labour market. <br /><br /> The number of registered jobless rose by 1.75 percent in January from a month earlier.<br /><br /> That meant nearly 78,000 more people out of work for a total of 4.53 million. <br /><br /> Those figures were not adjusted for seasonal factors, like weather.<br /><br /> It was the first time since October that Spain’s jobs centres were fuller.<br /><br /> The end of the busy Christmas period saw the services sector take the biggest hit. <br /><br /> However builders hired more workers and the overall jobless total was down by six percent from January last year with 288,744 fewer unemployed.<br /><br /> In seasonally-adjusted terms unemployment fell by 42,723 people month on month.<br /><br /> The total number of people paying in to Spain’s social security system fell to 16.58 million by the end of January, down 1.2 percent from a month earlier.
