Governments, as it is implied, should never be in the business of owning land.
That is where homesteading comes in. If you homestead the land, or live there, or make use of the land, it is yours to do as you like; nobody should have a right to tell you what to do with it, unless what you do causes damage to another person, place or thing. Once the land is abandoned, it should be made available for others to homestead. Here is an example:
I purchased acreage some years back. As I started building my home, I noticed a barbed-wire fence approximately 60 feet away from the property line. I thought that the previous owner had installed it, but to my surprise it was the neighbor in the back who owned a horse ranch. When I instructed the neighbor to please remove the barbed-wire fence, he stated to me that in one more year the property would become his, because the previous owner never bothered to take the wire down. Long story short, after several heated arguments and trips to the town office, I physically removed the barbed-wire fence myself, rolled it up neatly, placed the rolls on his property and took over what was rightfully mine. Lawfully, he had no recourse because I removed it within the allotted time, and I was able to make use of the property that I had purchased. Unless there is something out-of-the-ordinary-whacky-whack going on, Property Rights and Contract Rights are the only lawful way to solve any/all disputes.
It is up to the company owner to negotiate under contract (verbally and/or written) with workers, and vice versa. Whether you like it or not, it is not the business of anybody else what two consenting individuals do. If it were [which it is not], then I would have every right as an outsider to enter into your garage and dictate to you who you should/should not hire, and at what wage, while you make pretty waxed candle figurines to sell to your neighbors ;-)
[MENTION=1515]susano[/MENTION] , with all due respect, and I've noted it before, I am not much of a conversationalist online, one because my long-windedness would fill volumes, and two because I would be adding nothing more than what is already available.
Perhaps [MENTION=28167]Occam's Banana[/MENTION] (also [MENTION=5460]CCTelander[/MENTION] and [MENTION=12430]acptulsa[/MENTION]) can chime in and point you in the right direction, or explain it better than I could