School Kids Worked Overtime To Make iPhone X Parts In Foxconn's China Factory. Not Kidding.

Manufacturing the latest and greatest smartphones seems like a highly sophisticated job. Definitely not child's play, right?

But a sensational report has revealed how Chinese factories employed teenage school kids to make some parts of Apple iPhone X. And these kids were made to work overtime illegally!

Reuters

Apple has since confirmed the wrongdoing, stating "the students worked voluntarily, were compensated, and provided benefits, but they should not have been allowed to work overtime."

A claims Foxconn has employed teenaged students to manufacture iPhone X components and that those students worked illegal overtime. At least one of the students cited in the Financial Times report claimed the school had students working at the Foxconn factory as part of graduation study.

One 18-year-old student from the group in fact said, "We are being forced by our school to work here. The work has nothing to do with our studies."

REUTERS

According to the report, six students aged between 17 to 19 claimed their school, Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School, forced them to work 11-hour per day at the iPhone X Foxconn factory for three months as mandatory work experience prerequisite for their graduation.

Foxconn -- which manufactures Apple's iPhones in Chinese factories -- said in a released statement that, "All work was voluntary and compensated appropriately. The interns did work overtime in violation of our policy."