Foxconn says it has corrected internship overtime issues

Foxconn Technology Group, Apple's main supplier in Asia, released a statement on Tuesday in response to a Financial Times report that said the company had been illegally employing students, working them overtime to help assemble the iPhone X.

The company said it will not allow interns to work more than 40 hours per week on program-related assignments.

The report quoted six high school students who said they would usually work 11-hour shifts to help manufacture Apple's flagship phone at a factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province. Such hours would breach Chinese law governing the use of student interns.

"We offer a short-term internship program to local governments and a number of vocational schools in China. And interns represent a very small percentage of the workforce," the statement said.