Currently there's no way for Empathy to know it has to remove people and then re-add them to resend this. An option Robot101 floated was allowing re-adding someone to remote pending to mean this and having a flag on the channel meaning "you can, and might have to, do that.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21838 ***
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