To provide electric scissors capable of executing an auxiliary movement by a simple operation, and hardly exerting an influence on a conventional structure or the number of components. In electric scissors including openable/closable cutting parts 18, 19, and an operation member 22 for executing an opening/closing operation of the cutting parts 18, 19, when the operation member 22 is operated in a prescribed direction, the opening/closing operation is executed, and when the operation member 22 is operated in a direction different from the prescribed direction, an auxiliary movement which is different from the opening/closing operation is executed.
