During 2020, it can already be confirmed with confidence that the negative socioeconomic expectations and trends of both covid-19 and the military events in Artsakh had a reliable and expected multifactorial impact on the development of employment and the labor market in the Republic of Armenia. Firstly, the economy reacted unfavorably to the two events with certain restraints, negative expectations were formed, then direct and actual impacts on socio-economic indicators were recorded. In parallel with the above expectations and statistical trends, the Government of the Republic of Armenia has implemented and is currently launching new programs of state support for employment and the labor market, some changes in the policy of program support.