South African lawyers look up overtime constantly. It is a short question with a long tail: who counts as an employee, what the agreement says, whether a sectoral determination sits on top of the Act. The instinct, on a busy afternoon, is to type the question into whatever box is open.
A generic model can mix the Basic Conditions of Employment Act with the Labour Relations Act, or with another country’s working-time rules, and still produce a confident paragraph. The names sound adjacent. The sources are not. If the answer does not show you the BCEA text it used, you are reading a guess.
NOMOS Legal AI is built to retrieve the Basic Conditions of Employment Act first, then answer from the sections it found. Pick South Africa in the country picker. Ask the overtime question. Read the portions that come back. If a section is cited, open it. Do not treat a summary as the rule.
We are not restating overtime thresholds, percentages, or hour limits here. Those numbers live in the Act, and they change with amendments, exclusions, and the facts of the engagement. A blog post that repeats them as if they were advice would be doing the thing we are trying to avoid. The workflow is the point: retrieve the statute, show the excerpt, let the lawyer verify.
If retrieval is thin, NOMOS should say so rather than fill the gap from general knowledge. That miss is useful. It tells you to name the Act more tightly, check the country picker, and go to the text yourself.
This is research assistance, not legal advice, and not a substitute for reading the full provision in force. The product walkthrough is on Product.