The struggle to guarantee basic, human rights for domestic workers is crucial to guaranteeing access to just and decent working conditions for all essential to achieving gender equality in the workplace, fundamental to working towards the recognition of migrant worker’s rights, and a critical step towards the abolition of child-labor. Dominican labor unions, working with domestic workers since 2008, have achieved what was before considered impossible. Today, domestic work is beginning to be treated as legitimate work not only by Dominican labor unions, but also by mainstream Dominican media outlets, and, perhaps most importantly, the workers themselves, who are increasingly organized. That the ILO convention is now supported by the Dominican senate is another breakthrough for the movement. If finally ratified by the Dominican Republic, it would help to formalize, professionalize and regulate domestic work. It would, among other things, regulate working time, establish remuneration as a payment method (instead of in-kind payment such as room and board), and require the provision of written contracts, freedom of association, social security, health insurance, and maternity rights. Finally, it would also mandate the establishment of culturally adequate complaint mechanisms, accompanied by the necessary monitoring and compensation mechanisms to ensure that the domestic worker’s rights are not only valued, but also upheld.