The population is a source of a country’s state potential that aids the achievement of strategic plans. Well-being of the population is a guarantee of successful implementation of employment programs in the context of market economics. The main task of state regulation is to reach the desired goal and targets under the conditions of contemporary and actual environment. Research objective The objective is to review the implementation of state programmes in regards to population employment and to analyse the actual concepts of state politics development in regards to employment, its efficiency in the present environment of social tension of a region – Aktobe oblast. Methods By means of analysis the general scientific research methods have been defined – system methods based on analysis and evaluation of practical and operative data of official statistical sources of Committee on Statistics of Republic of Kazakhstan, the data of city department of Aktobe Employment Centre. Conclusions The article generalizes the systems of state principles in implementation of state programmes for elimination of social threats leading to different external and internal threats, poverty and social tension in the region. It reveals the legal steps and responsibility of the employment parties, relationship of unemployed citizens and the state.