Apple has made the quite embarrassing admission that during 2009 there was nearly a dozen underage teens working in Apple-contracted facilities around the globe. The news that your iPhone may have been put together by a minor was posted on Apple’s corporate site under a section labeled ‘Supplier Responsibility’ which also revealed that some employees were being overworked, some were being paid less than minimum wage and legal benefits were also being ignored at some facilities.

Apple Store workers may have things slightly easier than those working in the company’s various manufacturing facilities.

A ComputerWorld report says that the underage workers were found at three separate facilities, and while no specific locations were named in the audit as employing minors, facilities in China, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States were all named as being visited during the compilation of the report. The factories in question built iPhones, iPods, and various Apple computers.

“Across the three facilities, our auditors found records of 11 workers who had been hired prior to reaching the legal age, although the workers were no longer underage or no longer in active employment at the time of our audit,” the report says. The legal age in the facilities’ countries, according to Apple’s report, is 16. The workers in question were only 15 when they were hired.

Elsewhere, Apple‘s audit found two dozen facilities that were paying their people less than the minimum required wage and another 57 that were cheating workers out of legally required benefits such as sick days and maternity leave. Some factories even cut workers’ wages for “disciplinary purposes,” according to Apple’s report.

In addition, more than 60 different facilities were also overworking their employees, Apple says. Apple’s code requires suppliers to work employees no more than 60 hours a week with “at least one day a rest per seven days of work.”

Apple says it’s requiring the suppliers to develop new measures to correct the violations. Some of the measures include repaying workers who were underpaid and implementing new systems to ensure correct payment and weekly work-time in the future. The company promises to follow up with the factories to be certain they’ve taken the appropriate steps.