This paper examines the first attempts at state intervention in domestic services and outlines their character, scope, underlying concepts and the reasons that prevented their development. Said initiatives did not turn into law due to a lack of organized pressure from the domestic services and, also, due to the pecularities of this work. The fact that employers and workers lived together and that the work relationship overlapped with the affective relationship was an obstacle for the development of legislation. State documentation and press information were consulted for the writing of this paper.