Palantir to pay $1.7 million to settle discrimination case

Palantir will pay $1.7 million to Asian job applicants who accused the company of discrimination as part of an agreement with the Department of Labor. 

In September 2016, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs filed a complaint against the company after an investigation into its hiring practices.

Palantir, a software company that holds a number of federal contracts, was founded in part by Peter Thiel, a close ally of President Trump who spoke at the Republican National Convention last year.

{mosads}As part of the consent decree, Palantir will pay $1,659,434 in back wages and other benefits to those who accused the company of discriminating against Asian applicants to its engineering ranks. Palantir will also offer jobs to eight of the applicants.

Palantir denied any wrongdoing.

“We disagree with the allegations made by the Department of Labor,” said company spokeswoman Lisa Gordon in a statement to The Hill. “We settled this matter, without any admission of liability, in order to focus on our work. We continue to stand by our employment record and are glad to have resolved this case.”