To provide electric scissors comprising a safety mechanism that can effectively prevent a child or a person who does not know how to use a machine from mistakenly operating the machine, the safety mechanism being disposed without impairment of the ease-of-use of the electric scissors. The present invention provides electric scissors configured to be capable of taking a locked state in which the operation of a motor is not permitted and a standby state in which the motor is operated by the operation of an operating member. When the operation member and the lock release switch are operated at a predetermined timing in the lock state, the standby state is set.
