Unemployment rate jumps from 3.5 per cent to 3.7 per cent in January figures

Faye Pinner lost her job recently when scores of people at her workplace were made redundant (ABC News: Billy Draper)

Australia's unemployment rate has increased from 3.5 per cent to 3.7 per cent according to last month's figures, in seasonally adjusted terms.

The number of employed people fell by 11,500, according to the Bureau of Statistics.