However, he has not been given his old job back and has been demoted to a post on a lower grade.
The man was dismissed from his post after a mistake led to some people being paid 100 times the amount they were due to get in their weekly pay packets.
Instead of being paid about £165,000 between them, the staff received about £16.5 million in their bank accounts.
Following an inquiry the civil servant in question was dismissed, but he appealed against his dismissal to the Policy and Resources Committee’s human resources sub-committee.
A hearing was held on 6 June at which the sub-committee deemed the officer’s actions to have been on the borderline of gross misconduct and very serious misconduct.
As a result, the sub-committee reduced his punishment from dismissal to a less serious outcome and he has now been reinstated.
