Adding new team members to old relay groups only makes sense if they can also see the past context; resending messages would be perfect for that.
The resending should happen for any user who is added to a relay group by the team, no matter if they were also just added to the team itself.
According to https://c.delta.chat/classdc__context__t.html#ad63ba1f955c677ccca143d1d12913be8, the bot can only resend messages sent by itself - this is pretty useless for conversations where there has been at least one outside reply from the team.
But IIRC, adb also lets some group bot resend the last 10 messages.