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The number of permanent jobs being filled grew at its slowest rate for 18 months, stoking fears of an unemployment rise.
Although the absolute number grew, the pace of growth in November showed a drop off and could turn negative.
Amazon and Royal Mail are to create 32,000 temporary jobs between them over the Christmas period.
Giant online retailer Amazon needs 13,000 staff for its eight distribution warehouses across the country to meet the seasonal demand for presents.
Those who are interested can click here for the Amazon careers site.
The company has been criticised for avoiding paying enough UK tax, with some sales made here routed through other countries.
More than half of people in the UK are still concerned about a lack of job opportunities, a survey has shown.
The study, by Pew Global, found that 54% of people believe unemployment is a major problem in the country.
This is higher than the 46% of those who believe that inflation is a big concern, suggesting that the Bank of England's favouring of low prices over jobs is not backed up by the public.
Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of trying to hide his failings - by an influential group of MPs.
Smith publicly 'reset' his £2.4 billion Universal Credit scheme after hundreds of millions of pounds of development spending had to be written off.
But the Public Accounts Committee says this was simply a way of trying to stop scrutiny of its problems and to hide them away.
Women have borne the brunt of the recession, according to the Fawcett Society, a female-specialist representative organisation.
Although the government has pushed an idea that the UK is coming out of recession, critics have shown that only those who already have the most are really benefitting.
The Guardian is today following up on its shocking expose of David Clapson's death with another piece about the lengths jobcentres, acting on behalf of a callous coalition, will go to in order to sanction benefit claimants.
Unemployment will fall to 5.6% by the end of next year from its current 6.5%, according to a group of economists.
The Item Club believes the UK's growth will be higher than any other rich economy's, creating more jobs and ensuring worklessness falls.
Criticisms of the way the coalition has managed the country's finances will be swept away, with over-spending falling and companies starting to release some of their huge cash stocks.
Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to the Item Club, said:
The coalition's benefit cuts have pushed 1.75 million more people into even deeper poverty, according to a new report.
The study, by Oxfam and NPI, shows that the drop in the value of benefits, increased by less than inflation, and direct cuts to housing benefit and council tax benefit have meant some of the UK's poorest citizens have got worse off under the current government.
This group has seen a cut in their overall incomes and struggle to afford life's basics including food and energy.
Work programme provider G4S is to have its ban on applying for new government contracts ended - after just one year.
The company was pulled up after it was found to have overcharged the state by £109 million for the electronic tagging and monitoring of prisoners.
But the Cabinet Office has backtracked on this ban, saying G4S had taken "positive steps" to change its practices and engaged "constructively" with the government.
