This work examines how laws aimed at regulating "corporate violence" (Chertkovskaya & Paulsson, 2020) are exploited by large corporations to perpetuate the very same violence. Although some laws attempt to regulate it by encouraging large corporations to operate more sustainably, the interpretation of the legal framework by these companies demonstrates an opportunistic use of the law (Sitkin & Bies, 1993). Using the housekeepers’ strike at the Ibis Batignolles (2019-2021) against the Accor hotel group as a case study, we analyze the mechanisms of legal disengagement deployed by a multinational hospitality corporation in the context of outsourced cleaning services from an intersectional feminist perspective (Hill Collins, 2017). Our work sheds light on how large corporations exploit legal loopholes to perpetuate violence against workers at the end of supply chains.
