The U.S. Department of Labor is suing Palantir Technologies Inc. and seeking to terminate all of its government contracts for allegedly discriminating against Asian applicants for software engineer positions in violation of an executive order.

According to the DOL complaint, the Silicon Valley data analysis company has been under investigation since 2011. It alleges that that for several software engineering positions, Palantir has hired mostly non-Asian applicants despite the candidate pool being overwhelmingly Asian.

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